The first human head transplant is going to happen in 2017.
the doctor.
Earlier this year Italian neuroscientist Sergio Canavero shocked the world when he announced he would perform the world’s first human head transplant. This week Canavero announced the procedure is scheduled for December 2017, and he has recruited a head surgeon (pun intended) to lead the controversial procedure. This operation may sound like something out of a horror movie, but one man is hoping it will improve his quality of life.
A 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, volunteered for the procedure in the hope of living a more normal life. The computer scientist suffers from a rare motor neuron disease known as Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease. The disease causes motor neurons – the nerve cells responsible for sending signals from the central nervous system to your muscles – to deteriorate, which leads to muscle atrophy and in severe cases, difficulty swallowing and breathing. Currently there is no treatment for this disease
patient remarks
"When I realized that I could participate in something really big and important, I had no doubt left in my mind and started to work in this direction.The only thing I feel is the sense of pleasant impatience, like I have been preparing for something important all my life and it is starting to happen"
said Spiridonov, a Russian computer scientist, told Central European News (CEN).
head transplant has already happened in history.
Ren has been operating on mice for a only few years; however, the first successful head transplant actually occurred nearly 50 years ago. In 1970 Dr Robert White, a surgeon at Case Western Reserve’s School of Medicine, successfully transferred a rhesus monkey head to a new body. Following the procedure, the monkey survived on life support for a total of nine days before the head ultimately rejected the new body. As the spinal cord could not be reconnected the monkey body was paralyzed below the transplanted head.
the surgery will go 36hrs process and 150 doctors are taking part in this complex process.
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So if 150 people were there for the monkey..how may will be for this dude?
150 doctors are for this man....for mice there was Chinese doctor ren and his team mates.
i think it is wierd doing that..
Wow this is going to be a big change for the world if the works!
yes it will bring revolution in the field of medicine and surgery no one will remain paralyzed if this happen successfully
It'll be interesting to see if they can properly connect the spinal cord. Would be a shame for him to end up paralyzed.
Though I don't understand how the Rhesus monkey transplant is deemed a success... not only did it survive only 9 days, it was completely paralyzed ! (and most certainly in complete panic. Poor monkey)
Hope the mice are doing good.
Cause if he hasn't topped the Monkey transplant and intends to do it to a human... That wouldn't be very ethical of the dear doctor XS
it is the part of revolution not all experiments go successful at least they have courage specially the patient who has volunteer himself on his own. if he is successful then Spiridonov will be called as real superhero of the scenario.
Though there WILL be ethical implications.
It's highly unlikely it will be legal to do this kind of operation in the next 10-15 years, even if the transplant is successful.
Were would you get the donor body ? Even if it works, it'll have been VERY risky.
In short, I think even if it works there'll be a period of at least a few years while they study how the operation went and make the technique better before anyone follows along.
But maybe the operation itself will yield some interesting information...
Now that I think about it, he'll probably need to be on immune suppressors for life, so the body doesn't try and reject the head. There's also going to be a lot of brain rewiring needed so the brain can get used to a completely different body.
Given he is paralyzed, the brain regions responsible for moving all his limbs are probably slightly degraded, not having been used in so long, so he's going to have one hell of a physical rehabilitation training schedule afterwards.
But let's hope for the best.
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This is totally insane. I see a future where rich old people are waiting for compatible donors to die. This could extend life quite a bit. Though your head might look like a raisin.
rich people no a days too buying anything they want from life of the people to virginity of innocent girls.. it doesnt matter ,this is life...
interesting...