So brain transplants are laughable ridiculous science fiction experiments that will never come true?
Well that's what 99.99% of the great scientific community was saying in the past this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JNmlqjLe4A
that keeping either of the brain or the body to be harvested alive during this process is impossible, yet it be done.
Now they say that it would be impossible and ridiculous because scarred nerve tissue does not make well and cannot be regenerated, and as usual they will find themselves proven wrong again.
The only true barrier to brain transplants that I can see is this 'scientific community' that keep yapping about ethics and oppose anything new and revolutionary.
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Yes ethics come into play, and so they should, however you don;t enjoy a scientific background do you?
Central nervous tissue (brain and spinal cord) can not regenerate, this is why we hold disability and why we are looking into stem cell research for the treatment of said disabilities and diseases.
This means that though you are able to stick someones head on your own and connect the blood vessel, there are too many nerves in the spinal cord to connect, and they will not regenerate on their own approaching peripheral nervous tissue does.
Maybe in the adjectives if stem cell treatment works we may be able to trasnplant full human heads, however don't count on it happening within your lifetime, and again ethics will come into play - so they should. especially if stem cell research works, then no one will inevitability a head transplant - as we will be able to regenerate brain/spinal cord tissue through the stem cells.
I reflect your just a hippie that needs to take some course in science, preferably degree level medical science since you start to question the community.
the only reason to transplant someones brain would be if you have two people one of whom irretrievably dead but with a working body and someone near an alive brain but a dead body such a patient would probably be in cardiac arrest hypothermic next to extensive myocardial ischemia and peripheral tissue death however cardio-pulmonary bypass would most likley be required to prevent brain death and if a suitable donor could be found to some extent than take the whole body the most the patient would entail is a heart transplant and amputation of the dead tissue meaning that the rest of the organs can be given to people who requirement them in short may be theoretically possible but will always be improbable Source(s): wewillwocku.u fudged ur huggies.communism
First, there is a difference between a brain transplant and a head transplant (either would probably be better described as a body transplant). With a lead transplant you would at least be able to preserve sight, smell, soft spot, hearing, and ability to communicate (through blinking or face movement).
If you did a successful brain transplant by getting blood flow established from a different body you would own a very hard time knowing that it was successful as nearby would be no way to communicate and no easily appreciated brain output. I suppose the presence of EEG activity would be some device of "success". If consciousness persisted it would be hard to assess and thoughts would almost certainly turn to psychosis in short order.
With either a brain or team leader transplant there would be no motor or sensory function below the neck, no voice, and no respiration. Maybe someday those can be at least moderately overcome.
The ethics of performing the rather gruesome experiments needed to "succeed" are, at minimum, worthy of debate. Especially in pale of the lack of any desire for current human application.
Yes. More laughable and scientific community is open minded.
Dr. T-J is right.
Anybody who knows even the slightest thing about neuroanatomy and physiology know that it's just not physically possible.
Somehow, I don't think that reality enter into your opinion on the subject, though....
its been done in the ussr
I don't tknow give or take a few that: I think I may have met some of the people where on earth it didn't work.
If this was actually true it would be headline around the world. it is more likely that a tissue transplant would occur. If someone placed my brain in someone else's body it would own my memories - that person would cease to be who they were and would become me. Don't believe everything you see on You Tube - plentifully of it is pure BS.
Transplanting a monkey's head is one thing - transplanting a human head beside spinal cord linkages? Its news that they can transplant a face - transplanting a team leader is not technologically possible at this time. As to your statement that the scientific community "keeps yap about ethics" I refer you to the medical advances of Josef Mengele - you need nouns in science or it becomes horrific. The scientific community does not refuse to go along with anything new and revolutionary, but the scientific community does demand proof and not a short time ago speculation. Welcome to science.
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that keeping either of the brain or the body to be harvested alive during this process is impossible, yet it be done.
Now they say that it would be impossible and ridiculous because scarred nerve tissue does not make well and cannot be regenerated, and as usual they will find themselves proven wrong again.
The only true barrier to brain transplants that I can see is this 'scientific community' that keep yapping about ethics and oppose anything new and revolutionary.
Answers:
Yes ethics come into play, and so they should, however you don;t enjoy a scientific background do you?
Central nervous tissue (brain and spinal cord) can not regenerate, this is why we hold disability and why we are looking into stem cell research for the treatment of said disabilities and diseases.
This means that though you are able to stick someones head on your own and connect the blood vessel, there are too many nerves in the spinal cord to connect, and they will not regenerate on their own approaching peripheral nervous tissue does.
Maybe in the adjectives if stem cell treatment works we may be able to trasnplant full human heads, however don't count on it happening within your lifetime, and again ethics will come into play - so they should. especially if stem cell research works, then no one will inevitability a head transplant - as we will be able to regenerate brain/spinal cord tissue through the stem cells.
I reflect your just a hippie that needs to take some course in science, preferably degree level medical science since you start to question the community.
the only reason to transplant someones brain would be if you have two people one of whom irretrievably dead but with a working body and someone near an alive brain but a dead body such a patient would probably be in cardiac arrest hypothermic next to extensive myocardial ischemia and peripheral tissue death however cardio-pulmonary bypass would most likley be required to prevent brain death and if a suitable donor could be found to some extent than take the whole body the most the patient would entail is a heart transplant and amputation of the dead tissue meaning that the rest of the organs can be given to people who requirement them in short may be theoretically possible but will always be improbable Source(s): wewillwocku.u fudged ur huggies.communism
First, there is a difference between a brain transplant and a head transplant (either would probably be better described as a body transplant). With a lead transplant you would at least be able to preserve sight, smell, soft spot, hearing, and ability to communicate (through blinking or face movement).
If you did a successful brain transplant by getting blood flow established from a different body you would own a very hard time knowing that it was successful as nearby would be no way to communicate and no easily appreciated brain output. I suppose the presence of EEG activity would be some device of "success". If consciousness persisted it would be hard to assess and thoughts would almost certainly turn to psychosis in short order.
With either a brain or team leader transplant there would be no motor or sensory function below the neck, no voice, and no respiration. Maybe someday those can be at least moderately overcome.
The ethics of performing the rather gruesome experiments needed to "succeed" are, at minimum, worthy of debate. Especially in pale of the lack of any desire for current human application.
Yes. More laughable and scientific community is open minded.
Dr. T-J is right.
Anybody who knows even the slightest thing about neuroanatomy and physiology know that it's just not physically possible.
Somehow, I don't think that reality enter into your opinion on the subject, though....
its been done in the ussr
I don't tknow give or take a few that: I think I may have met some of the people where on earth it didn't work.
If this was actually true it would be headline around the world. it is more likely that a tissue transplant would occur. If someone placed my brain in someone else's body it would own my memories - that person would cease to be who they were and would become me. Don't believe everything you see on You Tube - plentifully of it is pure BS.
Transplanting a monkey's head is one thing - transplanting a human head beside spinal cord linkages? Its news that they can transplant a face - transplanting a team leader is not technologically possible at this time. As to your statement that the scientific community "keeps yap about ethics" I refer you to the medical advances of Josef Mengele - you need nouns in science or it becomes horrific. The scientific community does not refuse to go along with anything new and revolutionary, but the scientific community does demand proof and not a short time ago speculation. Welcome to science.
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