Why not?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
they tried that a few years back via a quadraplegics brain transplant to a normal body. he died on ghe table. not likely to change that with cloning
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
go look at images of old telephone wiring like when POTS was still the main method.multiply those rats nests of wires by a billion and shrink that them down to the molecular size and you might see the issue
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I cut a big nerve in my thumb years ago, and apparently plastic surgeons fix that sort of thing.
They reattached the nerve bundles, but I was told the sheathes could be realigned, but the nerves would have to grow back from the point of the cut all the way to the skin.
At first one half of my thumb was entirely numb, and over the course of well over a decade I’d get pins & needles as bunches of nerves would finish regrowing, except attached to random channels in the nerve bundle, so my brain had to completely remap all those signals to what they actually meant. Also extreme nerve pain near the cut whenever it was bumped, I assume because many nerves just didn’t grow successfully and remained near that site.
It felt super weird because hot, cold, pain & touch were all mixed up, but eventually my brain sorted them out. It still feels a little weird, especially near my nail, but I haven’t had a pins & needles experience for a few years.
The problem with doing that with a neck is that it would take wayyy longer and the chances of the patient dying from complications due to no brain signals working right… yeah I don’t see medical science fixing this unless we can regrow nerves in a much shorter span of time.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Just enhance a few times and it will be easy!
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I’ve just looked it up that has never been a full brain transplant, so I don’t know what you’re on about.
T156@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They might have confused it for a head transplant?
Although neither patient was alive at the time of the transplant.
I don’t know if a full brain transplant would be feasible, or even a good idea. Not only would none of their senses and motor nerves work for weeks while the brain and nerves re-established themselves, but they would be walking around in a dead person’s face, body and speaking with their voice. That seems genuinely horrific.