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Can an organ transplant really change someone’s personality?

By Adam Taylor, Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University
Changes in personality following a heart transplant have been noted pretty much ever since transplants began. In one case, a person who hated classical music developed a passion for the genre after receiving a musician’s heart. The recipient later died holding a violin case.

In another case, a 45-year-old man remarked how, since…The Conversation


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