Can Getting a Heart Transplant Change Your Personality?

You might think that in this day and age, we would be past seeing the heart — an organ that pumps blood — as a center of a person’s personality. However, the authors of this study regularly dealt with real patients who worried that their personalities would change after a heart transplant. In fact, they report that some patients refuse hearts from the opposite sex, and others experience anxiety about their sense of self after having a heart transplant.