Is it theoritcally possible to put ur brian in another person body like transporting a liver?

Question

are there a way to do that?plz be specific how my theory if we cab remove the brain from our body and put it in another hollow body with no brain reconet the nerve and everything it be possible but very delecate and hard

Answer 1

problem is the nerve reconnection..there are nerves..single cells that span from your brain to the tips of your toes...that's right..singel cells...to do the transplant you'd have to break ALL of the nerves that go from your brain to your body..heart..lived..lungs..muscles..all of them...but assuming you coudl DO that..yeah..it could be done

Answer 2

In theory, yes. However, as of yet, the knowledge of the brain and how it connects to the spinal cord is a mystery to us, so any present try would result in nothing more than a dead body with a new brain.

Answer 3

The human neuro system is far too complicated to do that yet. But is has been done in strange ways with salamanders... they even chopped the brain up into tiny pieces and replaced it and they functioned normally!!!

I can't find the book on the web but itwas referenced to or from a book by Karl Pribram. Here is an interview with him. http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/pribram...

edit: I think the book was called scatterbrain, but I can't find it yet.

Answer 4

doubt it

Answer 5

Yep sure is - as long as we can get the neurological pathways and vasular system to to reconnect at the micro level - then why not?

Biggest hurdle - evwry single person is different a that level - Kidneys, hearts and Livers are possible because all of the 'plumbing' is relatively simple - not a such a minute level.

The way forward may be the use of new biological mechanism to enciurage renewal of vascular and Neurological links ( chemical replumbing)

Answer 6

The SHORT answer:

You asked if it was theoretically possible.

Yes, theoretically, it is.

But is it currently possible?  No, it is not.

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The LONG answer, if you want to read more.  <grin>

   Take examples that occur regularly...  -Accidents where the spinal cord is severed.  They have so far been unable to "splice" them back together.  They have tried several different methods to no avail.

The most promising so far was an attempt to re-grow the cells at the point of the break, by using human embryonic stem cell research.  This was attempted as an example, for actor, Christopher Reeves, after being thrown off a horse left him paralyzed from the neck down.

Regrettably, he passed away before positive results were achieved.  He did co-found an institute that is continuing the research.

Until they can reconnect the brain to the spinal cord (much like patching a broken spinal cord), they will not be able to do a brain transplant.  You will see people, paralyzed from spinal cord breaks, able to walk again, before you see brain transplants.

There is also the problem of reconnecting things that connect direct to the brain, like the eyes (the optic nerves)  You will see full eye-transplants before you see brain transplants.

A couple notorious "scientists" tried to bypass the problem of hooking up eyes, ears, tongue, etc. by transplanting whole heads.  Vladimir Demikhov transplanted a head and front legs of a puppy to an adult dog.  He admitted he did not even try to do anything with the spinal cord.

Not to be outdone, Robert J White of Cleveland transplanted the head of a monkey onto the body of another one, two different times, but once again did not try to attach the spinal cord.  The monkeys were paralyzed from the neck down. The first one died soon after the operation, but the second one was kept alive more than a day. He said he felt this was progress, but personally, I am not sure the monkeys would have agreed.

When he went public with his work two years after the fact, he was met with "universal condemnation".  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...

The monkey experiments were done over thirty years ago.  I do not know of any further experiments of this nature in recent times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwPBE7fXj...

Once they perfect the reconnection of nerves and spinal cord, then it *should* be possible to save some people with transplants.

I do not expect it to be soon, but perhaps in the next fifty years...

(There may be other physiological problems with this besides blood type matching, that I am not aware of...)

I hope this is a help in answering the question.

Answer 7

Yes.  In theory, it's possible.  In fact, it's even been done in dogs and monkeys, although they actually grafted the whole head of a dog to another dog, and they transplanted the monkey heads (the dogs died shortly after and the monkeys were killed).  I doubt there will ever be any serious research into this type of operation because of the difficulty involved, and the wasting of usable organs in the transplant body.   So although it's theoretically possible, it's not likely to ever happen.