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How was that done, exactly? Were they just sort of clamped together? Some sort of special bonding device that encouraged synapse formation?
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Even if the result is incorrect at first, the brain is adaptable and will simply remap to correct the bad wiring. There are videos on youtube of people who put on googles that invert the view of the world upside down. After a few weeks/months of adaption, they can live in that condition as normal.
I seem to have awareness that people have redirected the auditory and visual cortexes as an experiment and found that sight and hearing were recovered eventually? Unfortunately I can't find a source to verify this so hoping someone with better knowledge could confirm that this is just how plastic the brain can be?
Edit: algae not bacteria, here’s a link I found https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4817926/
I wonder how they transferred nerves given that.
If someone know and can explain I'd be very thankful !
How exactly does a nerve transfer work? I always imagined that certain control and reception signals would have their dedicated nerve connections, such that rewiring from a transplanted nerve would jumble up the wiring and give 'incorrect' results.
Even if the result is incorrect at first, the brain is adaptable and will simply remap to correct the bad wiring. There are videos on youtube of people who put on googles that invert the view of the world upside down. After a few weeks/months of adaption, they can live in that condition as normal.
It seems like there's a very deep idea of how a bike should work and instead of learning the new behaviour bit by bit the new idea just "clicks" at some point. I've heard people with up/down flipped goggles also say it's quite sudden change. I'm curious if it's similar for reconnected nerves?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if the result is incorrect at first, the brain is adaptable and will simply remap to correct the bad wiring. There are videos on youtube of people who put on googles that invert the view of the world upside down. After a few weeks/months of adaption, they can live in that condition as normal.
I seem to have awareness that people have redirected the auditory and visual cortexes as an experiment and found that sight and hearing were recovered eventually? Unfortunately I can't find a source to verify this so hoping someone with better knowledge could confirm that this is just how plastic the brain can be?
"Australian surgeons attached functioning nerves above the spinal injury to paralysed nerves below the injury." How was that done, exactly? Were they just sort of clamped together? Some sort of special bonding device that encouraged synapse formation?
"Australian surgeons attached functioning nerves above the spinal injury to paralysed nerves below the injury." How was that done, exactly? Were they just sort of clamped together? Some sort of special bonding device that encouraged synapse formation?
Stevo> "So barry, whats going on sunday avo, you wanna come over for a barbie".
Barry> Yeah, Nah Sorry mate, i got that thing at work, i'm fixing up a blokes arm.
Stevo> Just put it in a sling, no problems.
Barry> Nah this poor fella can't feel anything beneath his elbow!
Stevo> But all the bits are working
Barry> well they should be, just use some superglue to hold the bits and place, she'll be right ?