Organ Donors Might Pass On Their Personality Traits—Suggesting Your Cells Have Their Own ‘Memory’
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Organ Donors Might Pass On Their Personality Traits—Suggesting Your Cells Have Their Own ‘Memory’
The paper on heart transplants leading to personality changes just gets weirder and weirder
Guy HAS FINISHED WRITING THE BOOK (BETA)x.comPsychoneuroimmunologist Dr. Paul Pearsall explored such cases. In one case, an eight-year-old girl received the heart of a ten-year-old girl who had been murdered. Neither the heart recipient nor her family knew that the donor had been murdered. Shortly after her transplant procedure, the eight-year-old girl began having persistent nightmares; she
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Now let’s take the brain out of the picture entirely. In a number of organ-transplant cases, recipients of the organs inherited memories and personality characteristics of the original donor. And in all reported cases, the organ donated was not the brain.