World’s First Head Transplant through Frankenstein Surgery

Q.  In what is being termed Frankenstein surgery by reanimating human corpses, Dr. Sergio Canavero is planning the world’s first __________ transplant.
- Published on 23 Sep 16

a. Head
b. Foot
c. Heart
d. Kidney

ANSWER: Head
 
World’s First Head Transplant through Frankenstein SurgeryDr. Sergio Canavero is planning the world’s first head transplant by reanimating human corpses. In what is being called Frankenstein surgery, the Italian neurosurgeon is operating on Valery Spiridonov, a 30 year old Russian.
  • Surgery’s name has an interesting story behind it- In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a man named Victor Frankenstein creates a monster using body parts from the morgue and electricity
  • Dr Canavero is director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group and his collaborators have framed plans to test if the spinal cord of the head can be connected to another body.
  • They further framed plans to check if the experiment will stimulate nervous system in fresh corpses with electrical pulses.
  • Surgery aims to cut the spinal cord of the head and then repair it after which magnetic or electrical stimulation will be used to activate and reanimate the nerves leading to further movements in the corpse
  • The announcement follows an experiment where Dr. Canavero and his team conduced a surgery were they successfully reconnected the spinal cord of an injured dog
  • A series of research papers explain how the dog was able to walk and wag its tail in three weeks after paralysis from the neck down
  • The technique called GEMINI spinal cord fusion also works in humans to fuse the endings of the spinal cord together.

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