Transplanted Organs Impart Extras into Recipients
A new study reveals that sometimes donor recipients acquire certain characteristics or personality traits from their donor. Could the physical heart contain memories belonging to its original owner?
Case in point: a Spanish-speaking man who received a new heart began using words that he had not used prior to his transplant. His donor was a man named David who had died in a car accident. David’s wife used the word “copacetic” to describe the situation. The recipient’s mother then replied that her son had started using that word for the first time and the curious thing was that this word does not even have a Spanish equivalent. There is no explanation how the word entered the recipient’s vocabulary.
Not only the brain, but the heart as well contains important information about a person. Cell communication can continue to occur after an organ has been removed from one person and transplanted into another. Information from the donor may install directly into the recipient’s memory.
