Posted on 07/03/2013 10:36:36 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
One neuroscientist may soon get the nickname Dr. Frankenstein after making an ambitious claim about a completely novel medical procedure that has many experts’ ‘heads spinning.’
In a recent paper in the journal Surgical Neurology International, Dr. Sergio Canevero, a member of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, asserted that it soon may be possible to conduct full human head transplants, noting that they have been done in animals for the past 40 years, Quartz reported.
According to Canevero, the technical barriers that come with grafting one individual’s head to another person’s body can now be overcome. However, the main issue scientists have had with animal head transplants has been being unable to connect the spinal cord of the head to the donor’s body. This leaves the animal paralyzed from the neck down.
But recent medical advancements regarding the reconnection of surgically severed spinal cords has lead Canevero to believe the procedure can be done.
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The headline made me think of that movie with NFL player Rosie Greer. He was a huge guy with two heads riding around on a motorcycle. I can’t remember the name of the movie.
I want Angelina Jolie’s.
I remember back in the 50’s. when a Russian scientist transplanted an extra head onto a healthy dog, thus making a two-headed dog.
Abby Normal?
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