Transplantation of one head to another could be very possible in the future, as according to Dr. Sergio Canavero, technical barriers can be defeated. More recently, the doctor, who is part of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, pointed out that head transplants were done in a successful manner on animals since the 1970s.
Issues that have come to surface with the experimental procedure done on animals, was the inability to remove their spinal cords to a new body. As a result, this left them paralyzed. Dr. Canavero states that advances in connecting spinal cords which are cut surgically, means doing such a transplants should be technically possible in humans.
“The greatest technical hurdle to [a head transplant] is of course the reconnection of the donor’s (D)’s and recipients (R)’s spinal cords. It is my contention that the technology only now exists for such linkage…. [S]everal up to now hopeless medical connections might benefit from such a procedure,” Canavero wrote down in his paper.
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