No. People cannot live without the brain, because the brain controls your body.
You won't be able to breath, move, eat or do ANYTHING, not even swallow, you would be useless without a brain.
Brain death must be present before organ transplantation can happen. The donor is kept on the ventilator while consent is obtained from next of kin, and also while the testing is completed on the donor for compatibility with the recipients.
Kidney transplantation involves surgically attaching a functioning kidney, or graft, from a brain dead organ donor (a cadaver transplant), or from a living donor, to a patient
No, once the optical nerve is severed it cannot be repaired thus optical nerve transplantation is not yet available. :-(
A kidney from a brain-dead organ donor used for purposes of kidney transplantation.
Paul R. Sanberg has written: 'Cell transplantation for Huntington's disease' -- subject(s): Animal Disease Models, Animal models, Brain Tissue Transplantation, Disease Models, Animal, Fetal nerve tissue, Huntington's Disease, Huntington's chorea, Intracerebral transplantation, Surgery, Transplantation
I guess that is possible but it would be very unusual.
It is possible to transplant part of a liver from a living donor and have both donor and recipient survive.
Annals of Transplantation was created in 1996.
Transplantation Proceedings was created in 1969.
J. W. Langston has written: 'The case of the frozen addicts' -- subject(s): Case studies, Substantia Nigra, Transplantation, Parkinson's disease, Methylphenyltetrahydropyridine, Fetal tissues, Designer drugs, Brain Tissue Transplantation, Physiological effect, Fetal Tissue Transplantation, Animal models, Therapy, Parkinson Disease, Toxicology, Embryology, Case Reports
It is not possible to have no brain. If you do not you will not live a life. If you did not have a brain your body would not know how to move, breathe and do neccesary things to live.
No, once the optical nerve is severed it cannot be repaired thus optical nerve transplantation is not yet available. :-(