First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says neuroscientist

Re:First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says ne... by VladRussian2 on Monday July 01, 2013 @02:21PM (#5972579)

this seems to be thought experiment on throwing together of the old experiment on monkey head transplanting technicalities and the recent discoveries about PEG and some other compounds stopping the typical inflamation process that makes spine cord cuts into unrestorable connection breaks.

That begs a question - why wouldn't before head transplant we'd try to transplant a piece of spine (one or few vertebrae) with a cord to the people with traumatic damages of the spine (like bullet or some sport injuries)?

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Re:First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says ne... by Udo on Monday July 01, 2013 @02:51PM (#5972765)

You just have identified the primary reason why this entire head transplant thing is badly thought-out fiction right there: we haven't mastered reconnecting nerves yet. At least not reliably and not on that scale.

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