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Old 07-01-2013, 11:44 PM  
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Scientist claims human head transplants are now possible
So...are you still "you" if you have your own head but someone else's body?

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First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says neuroscientist


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Technical barriers to grafting one person’s head onto another person’s body can now be overcome, says Dr. Sergio Canavero, a member of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group. In a recent paper, Canavero outlines a procedure modeled on successful head transplants which have been carried out in animals since 1970.

The one problem with these transplants was that scientists were unable to connect the animals’ spinal cords to their donor bodies, leaving them paralyzed below the point of transplant. But, says Canavero, recent advances in re-connecting spinal cords that are surgically severed mean that it should be technically feasible to do it in humans. (This is not the same as restoring nervous system function to quadriplegics or other victims of traumatic spinal cord injury.)

As Canavero notes in his paper:

“The greatest technical hurdle to [a head transplant] is of course the reconnection of the donor’s (D)’s and recipients (R)’s spinal cords. It is my contention that the technology only now exists for such linkage…. [S]everal up to now hopeless medical connections might benefit from such a procedure.”

The procedure Canavero outlines is very much like that used by Robert White, who successfully transplanted the head of a rhesus monkey onto the body of a second rhesus in 1970.

First, both patients must be in the same operating theater. Then the head to be transplanted must be cooled to between 12°C and 15°C (54.6°F and 59°F). Moving quickly, surgeons must remove both heads at the same time, and re-connect the head to be preserved to the circulatory system of the donor body within one hour. During the reconnection procedure, the donor body must also be chilled, and total cardiac arrest must be induced.

Once the head is reconnected, the heart of the donor body can be re-started, and surgeons can proceed to the re-connections of other vital systems, including the spinal cord.

Paraplegics with qualifying injuries (i.e., enough spinal cord left intact to allow for a head transplant) could in theory regain the full use of a (donor) body. Likewise, patients with muscular dystrophy could be given whole new lives. Aside from the enormous technical challenges a head transplant would present, another potential barrier is cost. Canavero estimates that the total cost of a head transplant would be at least €10 million euros ($13 million.)

The bioethics of such a procedure are also extremely controversial.
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Old 07-01-2013, 11:50 PM   #2
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I'll stick with the head I have now, it still works and everything.
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I'll stick with the head I have now, it still works and everything.
This would enable you to have someone else's body.
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Old 07-01-2013, 11:51 PM   #4
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This would enable you to have someone else's body.
Well that works as well, can you imagine a 75 year old head on an 18 year old body? I can't either. What about Mothers I'd like to ...ewwwwwwww
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Tribal broke the damn thread. Delete your first post in this thread, Tribal.
I'm trying to the mother****er isn't displaying the edit button
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I don't think it's your post...I think its your sig....I don't know why but when I turned off sigs I could get past your post.
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