Name: The UnXplained: BRAIN ALTERED BY ORGAN TRANSPLANT (Season 1) | SERIES RETURNS 2/29 | History
Uploaded: 2020-03-19T19:12:45.000Z
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WILLIAM SHATNER (VOICEOVER): Atlanta, Georgia,

17-year-old Amy Tippins is having difficulty breathing.

Suspecting that she has some form of pneumonia,

she makes an appointment with her family doctor.

But the actual diagnosis she receives is, in a word,

AMY TIPPINS: My senior year of high school,

I started developing what I thought was pneumonia.

And then when they went in to do some further testing,

It was actually a tumor pressing on my diaphragm

and making it much harder for me to breathe.

WILLIAM SHATNER (VOICEOVER): With time running out,

But in the months following her transplant,

and abilities that were not only new to her,

some things about myself and some of my traits had changed.

But then a couple of years from my transplant,

I never saw anything like that being done.

Just kind of go, huh, that's interesting.

WILLIAM SHATNER (VOICEOVER): Of course, it isn't surprising

that people who've had life-saving transplant

But new interests, new personality traits?

Is it possible that Amy Tippins was getting

WILLIAM SHATNER (VOICEOVER): I knew my donor was a male.

I knew he was 47 and that he had been killed in a car

So I went to the library and I started looking

What I discovered is he was a police officer, he was 47,

His sister told me that he did a lot of his own home renovation.

it made a lot more sense on why some things about myself

and some of my traits had changed after transplant.

really contained some part of the donor's identity?

Conventional medicine believes the notion's far-fetched.

Is our life experience encoded not just in our brain,

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