If this doesn’t make you cringe nothing will. A head transplant from one body to another? Really?
Well, Italian Neuroscientist Dr. Sergio Canavero says this just might be a possibility. He is the head (ha ha) of the Anastomosis Venture with Cord Fusion who published a research in the June issue of “Surgical Neurology International”. In it the doc spells out a unique method to separate a person’s head from a host body and replace it with the donor head. The paper describes in detail all the techniques and methods, which actually were carried out in the 70’s on animals – the poor things. The only problem is the attachment of the head’s spine to a donor’s body. OK, that’s actually kind of a big problem. But maybe it’s for the best that this medical innovation never actually materializes.