head transplants

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http://www.news.com.au/technology/we-ar ... 6672938880


GOT your head screwed on right? This may become a pertinent question if this neuroscientist gets his way - he wants to begin transplanting heads.

Doctor Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group has outlined a medical procedure which he says will successfully connect a brain to a spinal cord - the major challenge for any such operation.

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I assume this is limited by species?

I mean could I wired up my head to a Silverback Gorilla and kick some ass?

Two-headed transplant movies used to be in style back in the 1970s.

Don't hold your breath waiting for a technology that can do that to be developed. You might turn blue and faint.

ruveyn

Last edited by ruveyn on 02 Jul 2013, 6:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Perfect! By the time I'm old and senile I'll be able to have a brain transplant. ... erm... hang on a minute...

Looked at another way, it's a body transplant!

I'm thinking organ donor cards should be more specific. What if you get in a car crash and wake up months later attached to a different body because your head was donated?


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The Soviets built a two-headed dog at one point. The US felt compelled to reply with one of their own.

Ugh, too horrible to think about!

Maybe they'll figure out how to just attach a head to a robot.

The U.S. outdid the S.U. and made a three headed dog which is now guarding the Pentagon.

ruveyn