Is this statement about transplants/transferred memories true? (read on to see statement)?

Question

It's been found by a few people who get transplants, that some physical and even some mental aspects of the transplant's previous owner sometimes gets transferred to the new owner. For example, some transplant recipients report that they start wanting certain kinds of food they never liked before, but which the donor liked. Less commonly, actual (but I presume somewhat blurry) ideas and "memories" occur to a few heart transplant recipients who don't recognize those memories as their own. There's a valid reason for this: the heart contains a lot of neurons, nearly or actually identical to some found in the brain, that actually store forms of "memories" useful to the heart.

Answer 1

I have my doubts.  But since we don't understand the whole picture concerning memory storage and recall, and we know we can have false memories, I would not bet the farm on it being impossible.

When the heart  is transplanted, the sympathetic nerves to the heart are cut.  The new heart works based on chemical signals, but some need a pacemaker.  In many patients the nerves never grow again.

Answer 2

I couldn't find anything from a reliable source confirming this.  I found an article by a physical therapist's assistant relating anecdotes about such transferred memories, but his resource didn't have any such information.  I found nothing by a doctor and nothing giving any specific information.  My opinion is that is not valid.

Answer 3

It's quite true that after major life-saving operations you can "change".  But since it happens with or with transplanted organs, I think it's just a "death defying" experience.  

They recently said how different former President Clinton is since his operation.  He had heart surgery but no transplants that I know of.

I just think it's that second chance.  Like, if I could do it over I would be more decisive.  Or, I will experience all of the things that I have heretofore put off.

The brain is the most amazing piece of jello that has ever existed.  It's capabilities are still in the stone age.  Only time will tell where it can take us.