Someone to undergo world's first head transplant...

BeerWolf · 10-04-2015 5:47pm #1

RT wrote:

Russian computer scientist Valeri Spiridonov is set to undergo the world's first full head transplant, with the 30-year-old expressing hope of "success" in a pioneering operation he has deemed similar in importance to space travel while speaking in Moscow, Thursday.

Valeri Spiridonov (in Russian): "This technology is similar to the first man to walk in space. This is because in the future it will help thousands of people who are in an even more deplorable state than I am."

Valeri Spiridonov (in Russian): "We're experimenting, which lead to a relatively successful transplantation of the body, but then it was not possible to transmit nerve activity in organs and limbs. In that operation it did not have a meaning. Canavero overcame this problem. He has technology that allows the merging of neurons. And it works. We hope that this technology will lead to success."

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Best of luck to him, but I'm curious... if it works, and the body is 100% functional... more specifically the reproductive organs, under genealogy who is the parent should he bear a child... the donor or recipient ?

osarusan · 10-04-2015 5:49pm

Didn't Dr. Nick Riviera do this already?

BeerWolf · 10-04-2015 5:52pm

osarusan wrote: »

Didn't Dr. Nick Riviera do this already?

No... that was a hair transplant. :pac:

The_Valeyard · 10-04-2015 5:53pm

Well, he must be very headstrong.

10-04-2015 5:55pm

I feel bad for the other volunteer.

Firefox11 · 10-04-2015 5:55pm

There was experiments done with dogs in russia in the 50's I think. The dogs were paralyzed and died soon after the 'head' transplant took place.

10-04-2015 5:58pm

Destined for reality TV.

"THIS WEEK IN THE HEADSWAP HOUSE, JODIE CAN'T FEEL HER LEGS AND JOHN IS STUCK IN THE SHOWER WITH NO MOVEMENT BELOW HIS NECK"

10-04-2015 6:00pm

I'd nominate Jeremy Clarkson to have Sue Perkins head. That's a reality show I'd watch.

ScumLord · 10-04-2015 6:03pm

This seems like they've skipped a couple of steps along the way. Surely the best thing to do would be to cure people with spinal injuries? I don't see how they can transplant a persons head if they can't fix spinal cord issues.

smash · 10-04-2015 6:17pm

The age of the butterface could soon come to an end....

fleet_admiral · 10-04-2015 6:19pm

Hopefully its not Linda Martin, Ill miss telly bingo

Miss Demeanour · 10-04-2015 6:22pm

I'm going out tomorrow night......

I'll gladly volunteer to be the second on Sunday morning......

Macavity. · 10-04-2015 6:23pm

osarusan wrote: »

Didn't Dr. Nick Riviera do this already?

No, you're thinking of his old friend Mr. McGreg. With a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg!

ArtyM · 10-04-2015 6:24pm

ScumLord wrote: »

This seems like they've skipped a couple of steps along the way. Surely the best thing to do would be to cure people with spinal injuries? I don't see how they can transplant a persons head if they can't fix spinal cord issues.

Sugru is yer only man.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 10-04-2015 6:27pm

Complete headcase.

Antar Bolaeisk · 10-04-2015 6:31pm

Miss Demeanour wrote: »

I'm going out tomorrow night......

I'll gladly volunteer to be the second on Sunday morning......

Won't solve your problem, it's a new body, not a new head.

Miss Demeanour · 10-04-2015 6:33pm

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Won't solve your problem, it's a new body, not a new head.

Body won't be throbbing......head will.....

The other fella · 10-04-2015 6:35pm

ScumLord wrote: »

This seems like they've skipped a couple of steps along the way. Surely the best thing to do would be to cure people with spinal injuries? I don't see how they can transplant a persons head if they can't fix spinal cord issues.

Thats the first thing i thought of too.

Whispered · 10-04-2015 6:37pm

Firefox11 wrote: »

There was experiments done with dogs in russia in the 50's I think. The dogs were paralyzed and died soon after the 'head' transplant took place.

As far as I know they did it with a monkey too, and again, it didn't work.

I read an article today where a neurologist called the Doc doing the operation a nutjob and said that the person undergoing the transplant is likely to totally loose his mind because his brain just wont be able to process the other bodies way of doing things (This was said in a much more medical way!)

csallmighty · 10-04-2015 6:38pm

More of a body transplant, he gets to keep his original head.

Captain Chaos · 10-04-2015 6:42pm

csallmighty wrote: »

More of a body transplant, he gets to keep his original head.

You kind of die if you get a head transplant unless they can take your brain out and stuff it in the new head.

smash · 10-04-2015 6:44pm

Whispered wrote: »

I read an article today where a neurologist called the Doc doing the operation a nutjob and said that the person undergoing the transplant is likely to totally loose his mind because his brain just wont be able to process the other bodies way of doing things (This was said in a much more medical way!)

:pac:

Maximus Alexander · 10-04-2015 6:47pm

Firefox11 wrote: »

There was experiments done with dogs in russia in the 50's I think. The dogs were paralyzed and died soon after the 'head' transplant took place.

There were also experiments done on making powered vehicles that could travel in the air back in the 1900s I think, they all crashed shortly after leaving the Earth. :P

Antar Bolaeisk · 10-04-2015 7:13pm

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

There were also experiments done on making powered vehicles that could travel in the air back in the 1900s I think, they all crashed shortly after leaving the Earth. :P

That'll never take off.

10-04-2015 7:28pm

it's got the body of a spider

but the mind of a baby

Saralee4 · 10-04-2015 8:01pm

Whispered wrote: »

As far as I know they did it with a monkey too, and again, it didn't work.

I read an article today where a neurologist called the Doc doing the operation a nutjob and said that the person undergoing the transplant is likely to totally loose his mind because his brain just wont be able to process the other bodies way of doing things (This was said in a much more medical way!)

Yea I read something like that about a woman who had had a successful face transplant after she collapsed and her dog ate her face off. She had a face transplant but was depressed and couldn't accept herself when she looked in the mirror. She said she didn't want to sound ungrateful but felt that she didn't 'own' the face.