After completing a mountain of homework i took a break watching channel 4 documentaries, firstly i watched "ninety sleeps a day" which was all about narcolepsy but didn't really teach me any more than i already knew.
Secondly i watched a really interesting documentary about "Transplanting memories." It looked as cases where people (5-10% of recipients) had received heart transplants and with that 'inherited' memories, their personalities completely transformed, their tastes changed, their preferences were totally different and some of them feel as though they were being driven by a totally different personality.
Scientists have found neurons in the heart that are also found in the brain, this potentially means that the heart does in fact have it's own memories! However, this is not the case for everyone, some people had no change at all (but i'm not interested in them.) xD
Some doctors believe it's all psychological and that the medication, stress, setting and adjusting body mean that the change is not the cause of the heart.
However, there have been incredible parallels between doner and patient, the patients who received the hearts discovered that the new personalities or preferences were in most cases, identical to the doner they received it from.
I think this is an incredibly interesting concept, it would mean that the heart is interconnected on a different level that previously thought. The heart and the brain are constantly connected and 'sharing' information, therefore is it possible the the heart from one person can still have a partial memory of the previous brain which is then merged with the memory of the new brain and thus provoking a change.
I can't wait to see how this theory develops, there are still many sceptics but i think there is so much potential to be uncovered that we had no idea about :)
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