Exploring Cellular Memory in Organ Transplants

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Organ transplants have led to the possibility of a new theory called cellular memory. The cellular memory theory suggests that individual nerve cells can hold traces of memory for up to a minute.(www.livescience.com) Cells in the mind store and remember information by coming together to create memories.(www.dictionary.com) The theory is still uncertain, and many scientists disagree about this topic because it is a very hard topic to research and find information on. (http://www.medicaldaily.com) Even though this is a very hard mystery to try to solve, researchers did a study and interviewed forty-seven patients who received a heart transplant. Seventy-nine percent of those people said that their personality didn't change to the heart transplant. But a shocking fifteen percent had a change in personality due to a life threatening event. And six percent of the patients had a drastic change in personality right away due to their new heart. Also, at the School of Nursing at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, researchers looked at ten patients who had recently received heart transplants. They compared the behavior of the patient after the transplant and the owner Most people donate their heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, and intestines. If you are receiving an organ it has to be paired with a computer system with the one you already have. They are paired based on size, blood type, the condition of the patient, and waiting list position, but that varies on the organ that's being donated. If you need a heart or lung transplant the average waiting time is four months, however, a lung is eleven months, and the average wait time for a kidney is five years.(https://www.organdonor.gov) (https://www.quora.com)

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