• Question: Can you transplant your brain to another person and they can know all that u know?

    Asked by tszyninja25 to Fiona, Joanna, Michelle, William on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: William Davies

      William Davies answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      I suspect that in theory this would be the case given that memories are thought to be encoded in how your synapses connect and your brain chemistry. At the moment it isn’t possible to do brain transplants, because as soon as the brain’s blood supply is disrupted the tissue starts to die. There were a few scientists in Russia at the start of the last century who tried doing brain transplants with dogs and monkeys (but with little success!)

    • Photo: Fiona Randall

      Fiona Randall answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      Woo, who knows?! I don’t think we are at the level of technology to do that yet but suppose your brain in someone else’s body would still have the same connections so you’d be the same!

    • Photo: Michelle Murphy

      Michelle Murphy answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      Your brain is truely you own as we can not do brain transplants or at least not yet.

    • Photo: Joanna Brooks

      Joanna Brooks answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      Hello good question! At present it is not possible to transplant a human brain to another person – but recently scientists have performed operations like face transplants which would have seemed impossible 100 years ago! So maybe in the future this will be possible.

      BTW did you do the quiz to find out what sex your brain is? Follow the link!
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml

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