Valery Spiridinov has volunteered to be the first head (aka full body transplant) transplant patient. Valery has a rare genetic Werdnig-Hoffman disease, which gradually wastes away muscles — says that he is willing to undergo the risky procedure to give himself a chance at living in a healthy body. Sergio Canavero is the surgeon who would lead the teams that would perform the work.
Nextbigfuture covered Sergio Canavero's proposed surgery several times in 2013 and in 2015.
Dr Canavero gave a TEDx talk on his proposed surgery and wrote a paper on it. Canavero has had medical successes.
He worked out the mechanism of one of the most intractable medical mysteries ever, central pain syndrome.
He restored partial consciousness in patients in the persistent vegetative state and introduced motor cortex stimulation for the treatment of movement disorders and stroke rehabilitation.
In 2013, he made worldwide news with his project of cerebrosomatic anastomosis (Head Transplant) and again in 2014 with his cortical stimulation proposal for the treatment of psychopaths.
Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero announce a project perform a human head transplant at a keynote lecture at the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons annual conference this June. He sees the procedure as being possible as soon as 2017 and believes it should be pursued as a means of saving people with, say, multi-organ cancer.
He believes the patient would be able to speak in his own voice upon waking and that walking could be achieved within a year. "If society doesn't want it, I won't do it," Canavero says. "But if people don't want it in the US or Europe, that doesn't mean it won't be done somewhere else.
Most other surgeons do not believe the procedure will be successful.
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Nextbigfuture covered Sergio Canavero's proposed surgery several times in 2013 and in 2015.
Dr Canavero gave a TEDx talk on his proposed surgery and wrote a paper on it. Canavero has had medical successes.
He worked out the mechanism of one of the most intractable medical mysteries ever, central pain syndrome.
He restored partial consciousness in patients in the persistent vegetative state and introduced motor cortex stimulation for the treatment of movement disorders and stroke rehabilitation.
In 2013, he made worldwide news with his project of cerebrosomatic anastomosis (Head Transplant) and again in 2014 with his cortical stimulation proposal for the treatment of psychopaths.
Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero announce a project perform a human head transplant at a keynote lecture at the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons annual conference this June. He sees the procedure as being possible as soon as 2017 and believes it should be pursued as a means of saving people with, say, multi-organ cancer.
He believes the patient would be able to speak in his own voice upon waking and that walking could be achieved within a year. "If society doesn't want it, I won't do it," Canavero says. "But if people don't want it in the US or Europe, that doesn't mean it won't be done somewhere else.
Most other surgeons do not believe the procedure will be successful.
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