Do organ recipients take on their donor's personality traits?

[threaded]

My wife didn't suddenly start wanting to drive a Rover or start hankering after the times when everybody left their doors unlocked or how the summers were hotter etc when she was given her mums kidney.

But she did start nagging you more...

[Jubber]

... documented cases of transplant patients having personality changes as they take on some of the characteristics of the donor.

Well in that case poor old George Best drew the short straw, he must have got the liver of an alcoholic

[BoredBloke]

But she did start nagging you more...

No she was world class at that before the op

[Chantho]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1811

A man who received the transplanted heart of a suicide victim has killed himself in exactly the same way.

Friends of Mr Graham said he had not shown any signs of being depressed.


Scientists say there are more than 70 documented cases of transplant patients having personality changes as they take on some of the characteristics of the donor.


Last month, a woman from Lancashire claimed her literary tastes changed radically following a kidney transplant.


Cheryl Johnson used to enjoy celebrity biographies and best sellers such as The Da Vinci Code.

But now she prefers classics such as Jane Austen's Persuasion and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.

Character changes in transplant recipients are known as cellular memory phenomenon.

However, medical experts are sceptical about the concept and insist there is little convincing evidence.


What does our "expert" panel think? Maybe 25% drop in house prices?

Well, this film was on the box the other night (and I must admit that I thought the central idea was tulipe)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Me

[Cheshire Cat]

there is little convincing evidence.

What he said.

[Moscow Mule]

A mate of mine's got 5 kidneys now. (Two original - failed, two failed new ones and a working new one)

I wonder if his brain gets to pick which trait from which kidney?

[PAH]

A mate of mine's got 5 kidneys now. (Two original - failed, two failed new ones and a working new one)

I wonder if his brain gets to pick which trait from which kidney?

Sounds like his brain is rejecting them all on the grounds they're all from women and he keeps finding himself in shoe shops prancing around in high-heels. Could be worse though!

[EternalOptimist]

My missus had silicon breast implants and she can now outperform my windows vista machine at millions of complex mathematical calculations per second. In addition she has formed an attachment to the local beach.

[PAH]

My missus had silicon breast implants and she can now outperform my windows vista machine at millions of complex mathematical calculations per second. In addition she has formed an attachment to the local beach.

At least that shows they're silicon. Otherwise I'd have been checking she doesn't have a couple of kangaroo pockets in them to hide all your cash, which she assumes is spare.

[Platypus]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1811

A man who received the transplanted heart of a suicide victim has killed himself in exactly the same way.

Friends of Mr Graham said he had not shown any signs of being depressed.


Scientists say there are more than 70 documented cases of transplant patients having personality changes as they take on some of the characteristics of the donor.


Last month, a woman from Lancashire claimed her literary tastes changed radically following a kidney transplant.


Cheryl Johnson used to enjoy celebrity biographies and best sellers such as The Da Vinci Code.

But now she prefers classics such as Jane Austen's Persuasion and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.

Character changes in transplant recipients are known as cellular memory phenomenon.

However, medical experts are sceptical about the concept and insist there is little convincing evidence.


What does our "expert" panel think? Maybe 25% drop in house prices?

I think it's bulltulip put around by the folks who are marketing the new movie called "The Eye" which features cellular memory.

Remember last week, on the news about people who are "awake" during operations because the anaesthetic didn't work? Anybody seen the new movie "Awake" ? (it's not bad actually).

Clever these marketing folks