Human head transplant to happen in China

Dr. Sergio Canavero says a human head transplant surgery will occur within 10 months. As if that wasn't wild enough, he's also working on a method for brain transplants.




Reminds me of the movie "Get out", that was recently released.

Dunno what to think of this.

I think I just wanna hear the Dr. do this.....

Russian Dog Head Isolation Transplant

Well.

That's one way to get your teeth fixed.

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originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Russian Dog Head Isolation Transplant

That is just wrong lol.. But I suppose better an animal than a human for testing.

a reply to: Black_Fox
It would be really messed up to find out that the person getting a new body is none other than David Rockefeller back from the grave! His first words will be "haha bitches, who needs a fifth heart, when now I can get a whole new body!!!"
We will come to find out he generously put his head in cryogenics as a gift to science for future generations

a reply to: Black_Fox

I think this type of operation may be immoral or is it just me?

a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss

WTF!!!!

a reply to: Black_Fox

I wonder what type of human testing has been done to this point. It is China, so a few million won't be missed.

a reply to: dfnj2015

You have to wonder, was the body the recipient of the donation or the head?

The human body,organs including the brain have a finite lifespan.

You can play Frankenstein with mix matching parts.

But at that point is no longer called life, but maintenance like a car.

Sometimes man just don't know when to stop.

a reply to: Black_Fox

As if that wasn't wild enough, he's also working on a method for brain transplants.

How do you do a head transplant without doing a brain one?

"See this body you see standing before you??"

..(breathes in slowwwly)

"..this...steaming Adonis?.."

(breathes in again)

"Its all..someone else's......"

(drops microphone)..


Kill me.

Has anyone seen the movie caterpillar?? Because this kind of reminds me..

a reply to: TobyFlenderson

How many democracy protester are left?!?!?!?!

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So, in actuality, what's happening is a full body transplant?

Since the brain is you, for all intents and purposes, and the body is just the machine that keeps it running.

It'll be interesting to see if this works, and what the dude will be capable of doing in his new body, if anything.

a reply to: worldstarcountry

He died recently. Rumor is he had seven heart transplants.

The story broke last year:

Italian neuroscientist Dr. Sergio Canavero made headlines last year when he announced his plans to perform the first human head transplant in 2017. Since then, he’s recruited Chinese surgeon Dr. Xiaoping Ren to work with him, and now has found a volunteer patient for the procedure: a Russian man named Valery Spiridonov.
More about the volunteer patient-

Spiridonov suffers from Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease, a rare and often fatal genetic disorder that breaks down muscles and kills nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that help the body move. Spiridonov is confined to a wheelchair; his limbs are shriveled and his movements essentially limited to feeding himself, typing, and controlling his wheelchair with a joystick.

Source

a reply to: worldstarcountry

Nah, it's Richard Nixon. Have you not seen Futurama?

a reply to: TobyFlenderson

Millions have gone missing in China. This would be a good explanation of where they went.

We haven't been able to figure out the means to transplant an eye due to the complexity of the optic nerve, but we can do the spinal cord which is even more complex?

I find this hard to believe.

I expect his patient to not make it off the table and be paralyzed from the neck down.