Brain Transplant? If possible, would you? See attached link for info.?
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I don't want a brain transplant, but I have a list of people in SEVERE need of one.  Where can I sign them up?
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After a question like that, I'm left to ponder whether you have a brain.  I mean...anybody who thinks Bush might have a brain, obviously do not have one themselves.  Anybody w/ a brain knows that there's NO way that Bush can actually have brain.
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I'm not a nurse and you see it first hand.  Your concern is legitimate. What I don't agree with is the second persons comment about getting a brain - there is actually life outside the USA. What all people need to understand is your life, my life, has concerns that involve where we live. We might care about what happens in other places in the world but we can't live our lives totally removed from where we are day to day. I think you have a life and have the right to voice your opinion. It is now something i am curious about and will look into.
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as an employee at a drug store, I can tell you that there are many supplements that can be used to improve brain function. One such product is Centrum Performance, a vitamin, which is supposed to "vitalize body and mind." another product is called BrainSpeed (runs about $40 for 60 tablets), obviously directed more for the brain. I personally haven't tried either of these products, nor have I spoken to anyone who has. I have been considering trying Centrum Performance. Anyway, just talk to a doctor or check out your local drug store.
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08/29/2005 :  11:18:43   \nWell guys we have some good news on Akili. The rehab center where he is at in Austin is continuously looking after him and making sure they do everything they can to help him recover. He is now coughing on his own and starting to hold his head up. The latest tests run on him have showed that both sides of his brain are showing brain waves compared to the hospital saying that half of his brain was gone. This is a huge plus for Akili. This is the latest on Mr.Gray and I will continue to keep you updated on his condition.
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Good for you!\nI am so glad to see someone on here with more that one brain cell functioning :-)
1051040
why don't you ask your teacher? I find it very disturbing that the person that drew my blood the other day may have been taught how to do it by someone on yahoo. Gee whats next a Dr. asking the best way to perform a heart transplant.
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My dad had a girlfriend a while back that has a brother with an inflicted brain injury causing severe mental incapacity and loss of function. She told me about going to groups, and how she found out about how to deal with caring for her brother under such conditions. One of her sources of info was a group she found on the web years ago, since dissolved. Here are a few other options. Good luck, blessed Be.
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It is possible. Ask your doctor.
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i have no dought that this will one day happen...people have found on freak events, a brain cell that reacts to a picture in lab animals...i would imagation after a while they will have much better brain mapping to a cellear level...then from there they could figure out how to make a computer to read the information...but i think that is as far as it will go...i do not think that the computer will think for us or anything like that...i think it would be read only in a sense
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Yes, DNA manipulation in post-natal humans, Has Already Been Done, With Some Success, Consider BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant).
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No, ROFL.  Life is all in your brain, everything you are is in your brain.\n\nQuestions?  Comments?  Concerns?  Email me through me profile.  :)
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check out transplant.com
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Technically, it would be possible, but likely very delicate.  Experiments are underway to assists people with disabilities, and look promising, but the control is done with very coarse setting like "thinking about talking" and "thinking about moving the foot", so that very distinct area of the brain are involved, so that they are easily distinguished in operation. To go beyond that, and be able to control very delicate instrument with high precision like it was one own limb would probably require going in and tapping the nerves directly; picking up the signal though the thickness of the skull and homing to an area that is measured in millimeter -- let alone singling out one neuron -- is asking too much.
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I have two friends who've gone through.\nThey were actually very strong before but did not have any problems..\nNevertheless, it's a type of surgery and there are always risks. So think about whether it is really necessary or whether you can bear with it.\nThe latest I read here is that they are starting a study where they believe they can train the brain to deal with it. As such, get people to re-gain a clear vision (if the degree is low), or get people with a higher degree to be able to see clearly with glasses/contacts of a lower degree.
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It's totally insane but at the same time pretty cool. Its gotta be really weird seeing a dead person's face on an alive person and all but its pretty amazing that we have the technology these days to do such a transplant. Its got to be hard for both the family of the person who no longer has a face cuz their dead and stuff as well as for the person who had the face transplant. They'd both have to go through a lot of therapy in my opinon to be able to cope with it all, but if its all agreeable with all who are inclueded in the transplant i say go for it.
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Allow me to address your questions in a different order than you have asked:\n\nFirst of all, there is a reason why it seems like they're saying stem cells might cure just about anything.  The reason is that it seems that way to scientists too!  Let's put it this way - given the right set of stimuli, we KNOW a stem cell can grow into any cell in your body.  We know this because that is what stem cells already do on their own.  The potential for medicine is staggering.\n\nImagine what repairing a car would be like if all you could use were whatever parts happened to be in the nearest junkyard.  You might be able to use duct tape to hold things together a little longer, or if you're lucky you'll have exactly the right part available, but otherwise mostly you're making do and hoping.  That's kind of where medicine is now with major problems.\n\nIf some of the promise of stem cells pan out, however, the potential exists that any time something goes wrong, doctors could produce a new part and replace the old one.  Like having a catalogue of custom car parts at your fingertips.  Lost your arm in a car accident?  Your pancreas stopped producing insulin and now you're diabetic?  You don't like that old, wrinkly skin you have and want something new?  NO PROBLEM.  (You can see, I hope, why that might make people excited)\n\nBut it's not easy.  There HAS been some success with stem cells of various types.  An experimentor in Asia caused some stem cells to grow into new capillary tissue in a patient, replacing something which medicine is otherwise completely incapable of fixing right now (those capillaries are just too small).  Some isolated tisue has also been grown from stem cells such as cartilage and heart tissue, demonstrating the possibility of growing just one organ for a graft.\n\nMajor diseases are still in the works, however... in large part because we still have a lot to learn!  One study just recently started injecting stem cells into the brains of terminally ill children - not intending to cure them, but just intending to learn how many they have to use, how and where they will implant, and what risks they pose to the patients.  As you can see, we're still kind of at the beginning of this whole thing, even though there has been some very promising work.\n\nAs to why the government has to pay for it... it actually is the case that the government pays for MOST scientific research that goes on.  Who else is going to pay in a capitalistic society?  Companies only want to fund things that are going to pay off directly for them; in this field they ARE competing with other countries and applicable results are probably still a ways off for things that would be massively profitable.  Private citizens don't usually have the resources to fund research much themselves, though Howard Hughes' vast monetary legacy would be one notable exception.\n\nThe bottom line, really, is that if researchers can't find money to do their work here, they will go someplace where they can.  That is why Missouri was trying to pass a law explicitly allowing such research - biotech companies in that state found that they were completely incapable of attracting scientists to work for them at any price that they could afford.  Some countries DO have different research structures:  in Japan the government can get all affected companies to pool resources and share the resulting technology, for example.  And perhaps for humanity as a whole it hardly matters whether Sweden, South Africa, or America makes all these discoveries... but it CERTAINLY matters for the economies of those specific countries!