Surgeons planning world's first HEAD transplant claim repaired 'irreversible' spinal cord injuries

www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | Published: 10:15 EDT, 28 March 2019 | Updated: 11:03 EDT, 28 March 2019 | By Mia De Graaf Health Editor For Dailymail.com

[Rinnwald]

[Magnum44]

"Yes, its so easy...A child could do it..."

Not sure if that's an exact quote. Its been a llllloooonnnng time since I saw that episode.

[nicollo]

[Sirius Lee]

[Redcitizen]

It can’t be accurately spliced back together. I had a benign tumor on a facial nerve. The doctors took it out but I have some loss of facial muscle function. Not easily noticeable unless I point it out. But they can’t get it perfectly repaired.. Basically they stick the ends together and hope it will grow back.

[chesley]

So. Where do they get the donors for the body? Is there gonna be a check on your driver’s license?

[catnipman]

it figures that it was the italians AND chinese making these kinds of claims ... brazil would if they COULD, but they know no one would believe them, so they just stick to bogus flying saucer claims ...

[NativeSon]

Are you being Transphobic?

[RooRoobird20]

Wait, wait, wait!

The patient who absolutely needs a head transplant is the FUGLIEST Man Alive, Representative Al Green!

[pigsmith]

Nah, it would be too hard to match up that pencil neck.

[cymbeline]

“It can’t be accurately spliced back together”

And the other posts on the subject:

There must be are hundreds of signal paths coming out of the brain. If you have a brain and a body separate, how do you figure out which nerve strands to connect to which? They aren’t color coded.

As one of the posters said, maybe the brain+body can automatically straighten out the connections.

Maybe multiple signals are multiplexed on one strand and each end point picks out the information for it.

[Windflier]

This is all too Frankenstein-ish to me.

[Fellow Traveler]

It might make a good movie: person growing up in isolation discovers he is a clone, and will shortly have is head cut off when his older self needs the body.

There was a movie called I think "The Island" that had that exact premise.

[MikelTackNailer]

I could see some wealthy and powerful people making clones just for that purpose.

A (Star Trek) "Enterprise" episode had their indispensable chief engineer cloned to save his deteriorating comatose self. Sadly, the clone WAS a person unto himself and developed attachments to the crew and the love of life. In the end he voluntarily sacrificed his life to save the engineer but everyone was revolted and upset about it.