/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9512616
Technically, yes, but the technology for humans isn't quite up to that point yet. Who knows how long it will take, but I'm quite certain it will be available to the general public within this generation's lifetime.

>>9512616
Not really. At least not in the sense that you could fuse the nerve bundles back together and have things work again. Imagine you have, say, a half inch cable that is filled with 100 individual wires. Each wire controls a different component of a machine. Also, none of the wires are color coded or labeled in any way that would let you know what goes where. Now imagine that you cut that cord, jumbling up the wires and stripping the ends of the insulation off. There is no way to connect everything back where it went before, so even if you spliced every wire together nothing would work anyway. In reality, spinal injuries are worse than this because the nerve bundles are crushed, frayed, and displaced leaving some of them too damaged to even be reconnected.

At that point, your only hope would be to go through a proxy, where perhaps you measure brain activity, map that to a muscle group, and have a computer sort that information out and electronically stimulate the muscle group. That approach is significantly more workable and realistic to achieve than spinal cord fusion.

>>9512673
You have no understanding of the processes involved with how the mind learns to control things. How it is wired doesn't matter so long as it is wired, the mind takes care of the rest.

>>9512800
Not remotely true for the spine. The nerves pass through specific channels in the spine, dessucate and go to an area of the brain physiologically designed for that process. Neuroplasticity does not refer to nerves and is overstated as a phenomena.

t. doctor

the head transplant doctor said so

>>9512800
>year 2064
>get your spinal cord severed in an accident
>doctors just reconnect it willy-nilly cause it doesn't matter how it's wired as long as it's wired
>nofap is now easy because every arm movement you try to make results in you kicking yourself in the face

>>9512616
Doctor Lil Pump (after Smoking Lots of Weed) said that perhaps, He will try to do the Surgery.

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>>9513394
Where do I have to sign up to have my benis enlarged by Dr. Pump?

>>9512616
We're getting there.

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>>9513394
You misunderstand, which is why I know that you know nothing about this. Learning to use your body via sensory input is how people will do it. It is the same thing as using a device on your tongue to be able to see or learning how to use an artificial limb. When you are subjected to it and train to learn how to use it, your brain makes the switch. Nothing is has too much neuroplasticity to ever remain in one state when presented with new stimuli.

all things are possible for The Lord
>3D printer for biological tissue that uses DNA as source template

Not unless you're an axolotyl

I'm actually doing some research on using AAO-VACNT's with one of the goals being specifically the re-connection of severed nerves on the lower spine, and the answer is a solid maybe. There's already plenty of work on having nerves grow on CNT/Graphene scaffolds, but having it actually tested on humans is a ways out.

>>9512616
Sure, you just won't be able to use any part of your body below the part that got severed.

i've done some (very basic) research on this a while ago actually, there's someone named Grégoire Courtine who has developed a tool to accelerate regrowth

if you severed a small section of your spinal cord, it's possible for it to regrow completely given that it's short enough or given enough time
what's usually the problem is that the gap is large enough to where cells start dying on the other side, this implant basically reconnects the brain to the severed nerve and allows the cells to regrow, such that eventually you could take out the implant all together

it's in a very basic stage right now but it's shown success in testing animals
https://www.ted.com/talks/gregoire_courtine_the_paralyzed_rat_that_walked#t-570015

>>9512634
>Technically, yes, but the technology for humans isn't quite up to that point yet

you can fucking say that to anything