Head transplants no longer bad scifi, but reality!?

[jeffbert]

Gizmag has a page on fusing spinal cords together, though nothing about reconnecting a single broken spinal cord. hmy: Anyway, the idea of the head of someone whose body is diseased, injured, or, perhaps, just does not meet the requirements of the head, being attached to a different, perhaps, ideal body, is disturbing. An Italian neurosurgeon is certain it can be done, as soon as 2017.

http://www.gizmag.com/human-head-transplants/36315/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=64a461433f-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-64a461433f-76704577

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

How about transplanting an extra head? Zaphod Beeblebrox perhaps?

[jeffbert]

The Gizmag page has an image from THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE, which, BTW, TCM will show this Weds @ 8:45 Am EST.

[Novacain]

Could you imagine if you one day became a quadriplegic and the only available body was of the opposite sex? Mind=Blown.

[jeffbert]

I assume it would be easier to simply reattach the nerves in the original body.

[Novacain]

Terminal body cancer that doesn't affect the noggin', then.