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Doctors Research And Confirm That Human Head Transplant Reconnects With Spinal Cord With Surgery

by Alpha / May 01, 2017 06:53 PM EDT
Face transplant patient Patrick Hardison being examined by Dr.Eduardo Rodriguez, Chair of the Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center, Manhattan, New York, U.S

In human anatomy, the head is most important as it supports face, brain and body's major organs like nose, ears and other parts are also connected and without head and brain, nothing works. Being six to seven inches wide and 8 to 9 inches long, the human head is the most active organ in the human body. The average circumference is 21 to 23 inches. Males have larger heads than females.

If one has to be called intelligent, genius or average, it's all in the head. Generally, bigger heads are known to be intelligent as some cartoons display depicting it to be a super smart brain. The human head weight is between five to eleven pounds.

With the exponential growth in health and science, there are plans to perform head transplant which is also carried out by a surgical operation that involves grafting of one organism's head onto the body of another.

In the period of Vedic times according to Hinduism, xenotransplantation was done for the first time in the world. The Hindu God, Ganesh has an elephant's head on the human body. The transplant is believed to have been performed by Lord Shiva, another Hindu God.

Recently, an Italian neurosurgeon, Sergio Canavero, and colleagues were able to transplant a small rat head into a bigger rat. While this has been the latest experiment involved creating a group of two-headed rats and the doctor showed that two-headed rats lived for days. Doctors recorded the impacts on the rodents while cutting off the heads of mouse and adding these to the body of rats.Tech Times reported.

Now, Dr.Sergio Canavero has been planning to perform the world's first head transplant and proposed that it would be done in December 2017. Observer reported.

Doctor proposed that transplanting a head included reconnecting it with the spinal cord. "Several human diseases without cure might benefit from the procedure."

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