BrainCraft | Ways to Bring the Brain Dead ‘Back to Life’ | Season 3 | Episode 32 | PBS

Thanks to medical advances, we can use things like organ transplants and mechanical ventilators to keep us alive – we can even resuscitate a heart that’s stopped beating. So why can’t we bring a brain back to life? Well, our brains are made up of trillions of connections, and generating new brain cells or neurons is complicated. The research, and methods, are pretty controversial.