valery spiridonov Posted on 09/15/2015 3:43:37 PM PDT by lbryce
It's finally happening. A controversial human head transplant operation now has a date and a team of neurosurgeons willing to undergo the procedure.
Italian neurosurgeon Dr Sergio Canavero has, according to CEN, announced that he will be carrying out the procedure at Harbin Medical University in China along with a team of both Chinese and Italian surgeons. valery spiridonov
Valery Spiridonov has agreed to undergo the procedure.
Dr Canavero has been talking about the controversial procedure for years but it was only this year that he was able to find a willing volunteer that would be happy to undergo the operation.
Russian computer scientist Valery Spiridonov is that volunteer. Suffering from a muscle-wasting condition called Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, Spiridonov hopes that the procedure will give him a second chance.
The $15m surgery would see Spiridinov’s head removed from his body and attached to a healthy body from a brain dead donor.
On Friday the pair appeared at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons in Maryland.
Dr Canavero, who was filmed kneeling at Spiridinov’s feet telling him: “We can do it”, said: “The chances of this working are 90 per cent, of course there is a marginal risk. I cannot deny that.”
'We can do it': Dr Sergio Canavero kneels at Spiridinov’s feet
Referring to Spiridinov, he said: “He is a brave man and he is in horrible condition. You have to understand - for him, Western medicine has nothing to offer. Western medicine has failed.”
Spiridinov, who is confined to a wheelchair, admitted he is nervous but said: “If it goes good, I think I will get rid of the limits which I have today.”
Of his critics, Dr Canavero said: “I prepare myself, scientifically but also psychologically
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And when he wakes upo unable to feel the sensation of drawing breath he’s gonna wish he had his old body back. He will get the oxygen, but his brain will not get the message from his body that he is breathing and will feel like he is suffocating every second he is conscious. Non stop panic.
Which is the one big problem with the transhumanist idea of putting your brain in a computer as well.
Well, sure there’s some risk, but what the heck. Go for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant
Dr. Jerry Silver, an expert in regrowing severed nerves, stated “I think [head transplants are] fairly barbaric at this point. I do not even see that 100 years from now it is a possibility.
The procedure will be done in China.
The ‘donor body’ will have been picked as an appropriate blood type, etc. from the existing prison population weeks in advance. The tissue matching process is laborious...
He will, no doubt, have an unfortunate head injury in prison just before the scheduled procedure...
How do they propose to fuse the spinal cords together?
Shouldn’t this be called a full body transplant?
Straight out of X-Files.
Your welcome. I was a kid when I saw that movie and it scared me now I laugh because I can’t believe it scared me back then LOL
Well, no.
Actually they will end up killing two people.
I don't know, but I have visions of this:
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/the_brain_that_wouldnt_die
I'm not even going to pick - just fill in the name of your least favorite Democrat. :)
I guess if the guy lives, we can ask him if it should be called a head trans plant or a body transplant, seems like he would be the most qualified to tell us.
I have seen videos with those girls... other than being conjoined twins, they seem like perfectly normal young ladies. Look it up... they are cool.
I like that one!!!! LMAO....
Maybe a body for Dick Nixon’s head under glass futurama futured.?
Hey! It’s Jan in the Pan!
http://www.club-mst3k.com/513-the-brain-that-wouldn-t-die
The ONLY way to watch that movie.
I have upper spine and brain stem damage.
It’s not an easy life but I can function.
They can’t even begin to tell me where all the horrific pain is coming from, why my body feels like it’s shaking in a blender sometimes lol, and other things.
But they are going to TAKE A HEAD and put it on another body.
I held back before. There IS NO CHANCE this is going to work.
But it might lead to quite some bit of knowledge along the way.
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