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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWorld’s first head transplant volunteer could experience something "worse than death”
http://www.sciencealert.com/world-s-first-head-transplant-volunteer-could-experience-something-worse-than-deathThis week, 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head transplant ever performed, saying he volunteers to have his head removed and installed on another persons body.
If this sounds like some kind of sick joke, were right there with you, but unfortunately, this is all too real. Earlier this year, Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero outlined the transplant technique he intends to follow in the journal Surgical Neurology International, and said he planned to launch the project at the annual conference of the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons (AANOS) in the US in June, where he will invite other researchers to join him in his head transplant dream....
A Werdnig-Hoffman disease sufferer with rapidly declining health, Spiridonov is willing to take a punt on this very experimental surgery and you can't really blame him, but while he is prepared for the possibility that the body will reject his head and he will die, his fate could be considerably worse than death, says Hootan....
From speaking to several medical experts, Hootan has pin-pointed a problem that even the most perfectly performed head transplant procedure cannot mitigate - we have literally no idea what this will do to Spiridonovs mind. Theres no telling what the transplant - and all the new connections and foreign chemicals that his head and brain will have to suddenly deal with - will do to Spiridonovs psyche, but as Hootan puts it rather chillingly, it "could result in a hitherto never experienced level and quality of insanity".
If this sounds like some kind of sick joke, were right there with you, but unfortunately, this is all too real. Earlier this year, Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero outlined the transplant technique he intends to follow in the journal Surgical Neurology International, and said he planned to launch the project at the annual conference of the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons (AANOS) in the US in June, where he will invite other researchers to join him in his head transplant dream....
A Werdnig-Hoffman disease sufferer with rapidly declining health, Spiridonov is willing to take a punt on this very experimental surgery and you can't really blame him, but while he is prepared for the possibility that the body will reject his head and he will die, his fate could be considerably worse than death, says Hootan....
From speaking to several medical experts, Hootan has pin-pointed a problem that even the most perfectly performed head transplant procedure cannot mitigate - we have literally no idea what this will do to Spiridonovs mind. Theres no telling what the transplant - and all the new connections and foreign chemicals that his head and brain will have to suddenly deal with - will do to Spiridonovs psyche, but as Hootan puts it rather chillingly, it "could result in a hitherto never experienced level and quality of insanity".
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World’s first head transplant volunteer could experience something "worse than death” (Original Post)
KamaAina
Apr 2015
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Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)1. What could possibly go wrong?
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)2. A little bit of a learning curve.
packman
(16,296 posts)3. Gotta keep a clear head about this
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)4. Who is the donor body? nt
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)6. Any of the several hundred
people who pissed off Putin this week, I would guess.
benld74
(9,911 posts)5. If the surgery is anything like buying new model cars, NEVER buy the 1st one, wait,,,,,,
Archae
(46,362 posts)7. This story, and this website, are pure bullshit.
Not even satire.
This story is on the front page:
"Plucking hair in a specific pattern could encourage five times more growth"
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)8. That story has a link to an actual journal
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)9. I think they should put it on backwards...
just for shits and giggles.
Sid
arcane1
(38,613 posts)10. Shouldn't this be called a "body transplant"?
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)11. but the surgery will cost an arm and a leg.