Nope, to do that, you would need to connect the new brain to the spinal cord of the patient who is receiving the transplant.
We don’t know how to connect brain cells back together again yet, that is a major focus of scientists who are involved in spinal cord injury.
Not yet! There was a russian scientist in the 1940s who tried doing head transplants with dogs though – amazingly they stayed alive for a while after that, though it’s pretty creepy watching the video of it! I’ve put the link in, though it’s a bit scary/gross…
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Nope, to do that, you would need to connect the new brain to the spinal cord of the patient who is receiving the transplant.
We don’t know how to connect brain cells back together again yet, that is a major focus of scientists who are involved in spinal cord injury.
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Not yet! There was a russian scientist in the 1940s who tried doing head transplants with dogs though – amazingly they stayed alive for a while after that, though it’s pretty creepy watching the video of it! I’ve put the link in, though it’s a bit scary/gross…
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I recently saw this article on a Italian scientist claiming that head transplants are possible now..
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/06/head-transplant-italian-neuroscientist_n_3533391.html
Not sure whether it’s advisable though..
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