• Question: what and why are your aims for your present , past and future work? What is the greatest thing you have achieved in your work and research on the brain? If somebody ever performed a brain transplant ( it probaly woudn't happen because our feelings and everything would be different and you'd probaly die at the operating table but anyway.....) would your heart beat differently?

    Asked by drstilesjlstermerrygold98 to Damien, Rachael, Simon, Suzi, Tim on 18 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Rachael Ward

      Rachael Ward answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      hi drstilesjlstermerrygold98

      Thats a lot of interesting questions!

      My past aim was to finish my PhD which I’ve now done and now I’m aiming to publish my work from my last job and get a new job in Berlin because I’m moving there in a couple months!

      I think my greatest achievement was my PhD as it was so much work and during it my lab and I found a new treatment that might help people who have suffered from a spinal cord injury which can leave you paralysed.

      I agree with you, I dont think a brain transplant will ever happen as you would die so we may never know what would happen to the heart beat afterwards!

      I hope this answers your questions

    • Photo: Suzi Gage

      Suzi Gage answered on 18 Jun 2011:

      Hi @drstilesjlstermerrygold98
      Good questions!
      My aim for now and the future is to finish my PhD, and find out something interesting about the relationship between cannabis use, psychosis and depression (I don’t know what it will be yet though!).
      In the past my aim was to get funding to do my PhD, so I achieved that last year – hooray!

      I agree with Rachael and you as well, a brain transplant almost certainly will never be possible, but your heart question is really interesting. I would GUESS that the heart would beat more like the heart of the person who’s brain is now in the body, rather than the person who’s brain USED to be in the body! But as Rachael says, I don’t think we’ll ever be able to find that out!

      What do you think?

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