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Brain preservation cost will likely vary greatly by country and service offering. Some complex medical procedures (dental work, orthopedic surgery, transplants, fertility treatments, etc.) are [...]

Cracking As the plastic resin hardens, it can crack and cause microscopic fissures in the preserved brain. Incomplete diffusion of fixative and other chemicals Initial fixatives are delivered via [...]

Freezing damage When the brain freezes, ice crystals begin to develop in the extracellular space (ice does not form inside brain cells because there is much more water and ice nucleation material [...]

Revival scenarios have to be taken with a grain of salt, because predicting future technology is notoriously difficult. However, it does not seem like we need any fundamentally new technology to [...]

Right now, Alcor will preserve your brain or your entire body using cryopreservation, which is the process of preserving an object using extreme cold. They currently (as of 2013) have 968 living [...]

Your brain contains the vast majority of your life’s memories about how your body moves and feels. From studying patients with Locked-In Syndrome, which happens after a massive brainstem [...]

Current evidence suggests that it is. Because it appears that the human mind survives cessation of all electrical activity in the brain, it is clear that it is only a physical arrangement of [...]

Current medical understanding says yes. A human brain can today survive being “shut down” for up to an hour in conditions of cold-water drowning, or for up to 40 minutes in the medical [...]

We all cherish our faces, hands, legs, and hearts as parts of who we are. But no part of you is more important than your brain. Within it is all of your memories, experiences, skills, [...]