Head transplant

Scientists have successfully performed a head transplant on a corpse, and are ready to do it on a living person, according to the man famous for promising it.
Surgeon Sergio Canavero has become famous for claiming to be working on the first human head transplant. And he says that the successful test shows that his plans will work.

A chilling video first released in the 1940s appears to show Soviet scientists attaching a dead dog’s dismembered head to a machine and bringing it to life.

Footage reportedly from the Soviet Film Agency shows several Soviet scientists attaching the head of a dog to a machine.

Last year, Dr. Sergio Canavero created quite the ruckus (to put it mildly) when he vowed to be the first person to transplant a human head onto a deceased donor’s body. Yes, he is planning on attempting the world’s first human head transplant (or body transplant, depending on how you look at it).

The world’s first ever head transplant to take place using virtual reality will help patients adjust to life inside a new body, according to Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero.

It sounds like the plot from a 1950s B-movie, but Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero’s desire is sincere: He wants to perform the first human head transplant. Canavero pitched the idea to potential donors and scientists at a conference of the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons in Annapolis, Maryland, Friday, Agence France-Presse reported.

Shades of Frankenstein emerged on the international medical scene this week after the announcement that a 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, is volunteering to become the first human to undergo a …head transplant – that means cutting off the head and attaching it to another body!