• SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I can swear I saw a BBC or Discovery documentary about a UK guy who got a new brain. I saw it some time around 2010 -2 +5 year range.

      But I can’t find anyting about it. I remember very clearly him having difficulty to walk in a room and the narrator explaing that he was in an accident and had this new surgery. And his mum talking about how they needed to reteach him all the basic things again.

      If anyone knows what I’m talking about do tell, I would like to see what it was actually about. Because transplanting brains are apparently not possibly.

      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        It has never been done. Not even partial brain transplants have been performed in humans.

        What you’re remembering could be taking undamaged cells of your own brain to replace damaged brain tissue elsewhere. That has been done successfully, but I don’t know how the procedure is called.