Head Transplantation: The Future Is Now | Dr.Sergio Canavero | TEDxLimassol

[@supremeduran3743]

At first I didn't want a head transplant, but then I changed my mind.

[@gautamdhangar2780]

very logical

[@vicpacheco1317]

hahahah clever

[@straffentoebak1016]

u won the internet for today, congrats.

[@garyburchgb]

Quadriplegic Ego haha, good one!

[@MightyYoungSir]

Quadriplegic Ego yea, like @WAARHEIDEN said congratulations on your celebration

[@w2385-i2s]

Hmm, his head looks older than his body.

[@ashishacharya129]

hahahaha he may have joined his head on the body of a young man

[@st7tv582]

I think is the chemicals use .. that made his face older.. i remember my Quemistry practical teacher had same problem..

[@josephgoulet1565]

Funny you say that I was thinking the Same thing lol

[@kikoarmani]

Lol hes the first human head transplant!

[@ElSmusso]

w23857980 Give me head, gets a whole new meaning 😂

[@richardj5023]

I can see a future where people are kidnapped for there body's by millionaires.

[@user-ds7up1fi2y]

Richard Hargreaves Considering this surgery is going to involve 150 doctors, a mere millionaire probably wouldn't be able to afford it.

[@richardj5023]

Greg Palin OK billionaires

[@michaelprior2449]

Greg Palin the surgery is said to cost around £10 million

[@Monk_Mode_Master]

that was the first thought to come to mind as well. If this is successful it will only benifit millionaires... then your going to hear of a high increase of young adults vanishing or being kidnapped

[@Marco_diPasquale]

ha jokes on them nobody wants my body regardless

[@3enjoy3]

Scientifically, this is amazing - the potential is literally life changing. The thought of it, however, just makes me shudder!

[@MrAdryan1603]

Exactly.

[@RJudd42]

Scientifically, this just isn't possible at this point. If it was, Sergio would be writing peer reviewed research papers on the subject instead of doing TED talks.

[@dukeofmecklenburg-strelitz8030]

@@RJudd42 Face transplants were considered not possible 10 years ago...Its possible, but the question is will it be possible in the next 10-20 years

[@sohelbashar6925]

There is nothing scientific here lol And medicine is an applied science And this shits never will happen

[@Nylon-xj9ml]

It's horrifying

[@seandom4814]

I wish you success mr. Sergio Canavero

[@Antdemo]

before the operation Dr, after the operation, Mr, so he's in the middle.

[@mamelucoeltuco]

The gentleman is a great man of science, he became a doctor. "Low caps". Despite he will be remembered because all his deeds, not because someone else wanted to call him doctor.

[@uctuanmai8864]

Me too

[@KassarZ]

I thought that was only me xD

[@Mememan4512]

@@uctuanmai8864 never happened

[@FloofyTanker]

There are two possibilities. Success: He will be pioneer in Head Transplantation Failure: He will be recorded in history as the man who tried Head Transplantation. God bless him.

[@abeltesfaye6658]

Eternal Goddess nice copy and paste lol

[@tristanree1380]

Eternal Goddess iii

[@axpanos]

why did you steal that comment?

[@Pyromaniac096]

Eternal Goddess i have faith in him he can do it

[@davidgruen7423]

Eternal Goddess either way he will be in the history book, and be the pioneer regardless of the outcome, because this will be done in the future, without much doubt.

[@dogestranding5047]

He looks like a video game character/movie character. The way he stands, talks, and presents himself is really interesting.

[@aaronlao572]

he's in phantom pain thats why he looked familiar

[@Dinjur]

@@aaronlao572 his likeness was used in The Phantom Pain

[@billymcdonald3651]

He’s the pentagon thief from five

[@USBionicMarine]

@@Dinjur what do you mean was this in a video game ?

[@Dinjur]

@@USBionicMarine at the beginning of MGSV you awake to him has your doctor. He as fixed your body after an explosion.

[@santiagodiez7022]

The idea of "The brain dies, while consciousness survives" had me deeply thinking. Such a debating idea!

[@nickc247]

Completely false, but ok.

[@agro0]

If his surgeon skills are as good as his powerpoint skills, then the russian guy is doomed.

[@МаринаСтречна]

Hahaha

[@laurenherb3899]

F

[@rukna3775]

and as soon as he red ur comment he cancelled his operation xD

[@OnAllahwedependalways]

😂😂😂😂

[@maryannhope8276]

@@OnAllahwedependalways Lmao in Rhode Island Peace 🤣😆✌🙏

[@alanpadayathil4294]

This is the guy from fucking outlast

[@TheDodoia]

omg i was thinking the same thing while watching the video , he gave me the same vibes x)

[@tecktonalex]

OMFG 100%

[@solidsnakeneo]

Either Outlast or Metal Gear Solid Phantom Pain! XD

[@samantha7417]

i'm shook

[@Black-Re4per]

he was the Doctor in MGS V

[@CristianKirk]

Can't tell if he's crazy or confident. :D

[@kebabfoto]

CristianKirk probably both lol. He's kinda weird

[@tr4ckedshot883]

CristianKirk He reminds me of Mr. Freeze from DC comics, without the almost dead wife, of course. But still I think we should wish him success, for the sake of science.

[@emptyskullify]

As a successful doctor, you need to be a bit crazy in order to achieve such sanity in such an environment/profession... Its kind of a paradox

[@tahalmo3347]

CristianKirk hahahaha

[@JohnCrichton]

You need to be crazy in order to achieve sanity? That doesn't even make sense. Calling it a paradox doesn't change that.

[@Antdemo]

ebay will be changing their policy

[@Rainpub]

lol

[@Superketo]

I didn't get it.. can somebody explain this to me? capitan obvious? anybody?

[@krist3nkerr]

Superketo so u can't buy bodies

[@squarerootof2]

Superketo I'd say maybe so you can.

[@CreatorViruZ]

Superketo you cant buy body part from humans on ebay, so he said you could buy heads/bodies to transplant

[@puvididdle]

8:40 that guy is being targeted as the body donor.

[@negmone]

ahahah I'm weak

[@doclittlejohn3261]

lol it’s like he was laser highlighted 😂😂😂

[@johanandhira5429]

This is an interesting back story of a supervillain

[@thomasmckonigal4191]

I haven't even started to watch this video, nor am I doctor, but I can tell you this man is crazy.

[@darthsidious47]

Yes. Trying to extend life like what I assume he is doing here won't work.

[@Maks0zudd]

I somehow get the impression that he digged too deep into this topic and became somewhat obsessed with this idea. But to be honest it is a very interesting topic and in case he succeeds he will make himself a name forever (until humanity vanishes).

[@glutachi_6621]

What an ambitious man! I‘ll wait to hear the result of this project in the future.

[@seandom4814]

first they ignore you, ,then they laugh at you, then they fight you (i guess thats the stage we are into now ..) .and then you WIN!!

[@neurophyspharma7302]

don't be so ignorant..

[@rachelthompson-h2y]

We should say that to you

[@tomekstarosta8056]

Or you lose.. kinda like hitler or some other dudes.

[@jack_laplnt5691]

Basically trump

[@xUdieToox]

sean dom 4. ????????? 5. Profit

[@magnificent6668]

Shouldn't they work on getting the lab rat-mice to live longer than 24 hours before they start chopping off human heads?

[@numalesoybea1348]

He's a con artist. He hasn't proven that PEG can connect two ends of a spinal cord. Not a single animal model.

[@nikhilgowda.h.v6616]

@@numalesoybea1348 he is just trying to make quick money by luring wealthy people

[@Alisonn2]

They have already successfully transplanted monkey heads. But they killed it for ethical reasons after a day

[@armwrestlingfan6804]

This guy is literally the Tommy Wiseau of surgeons! In all aspects!

[@tbklynx3220]

According to my theory the individual growth hormones will change drastically and how's that suppose to be cure and also the neck is the same level as the trachea , how are you going to stitch back the the trachea AND also the blood capillaries around it? Good Luck Dr. Sergio Canavero

[@dannydanny1631]

Because he is just dreaming

[@dennisneo1608]

If it works, he'll be a medical pioneer. If it fails (which it will) he'll forever be remembered as a lunatic.

[@reneroux2391]

he might fail but his dream might be taken on by someone else in the future

[@PurpleBraveGiraffe]

He will fail. But many things will be learn that day. I don't believe he thinks this will work perfectly, but i believe he might prove it can be done. There is many goals to achieve here, + first the patient's head must be alive after the operation, conscious is a plus + also lungs and heart nerves have to be connected in order for him the breath having a heartbeat without help from a machine. +Many more unconscious nerves must be working in order for him the feel his new body + Will the signals from the body be well interpreted by the brain of someone else + To move around his nerves and the donor nerves must be joined perfectly (this part is a work of art really) + There is a rejection risk like any operation but the organ would not be a part of the body, it would be the hole body. When all this is working, which will not. There will be more issues to look at. + How will the patient brain adapt to another body, relearning to walk drive + how can he develop the ability to have precise gestures + how long can someone live having another man's body if none of the above cause death. + is this moral (many people will believe this is morally wrong)

[@thepatriarch6144]

Interesting what is your view on the many other ways proposed to cure ageing or to at least increase the lifespan do you see any specific method working in the near future?

[@Metalpazallteway]

Why the Pessimism.. What if he successes?? He'll laugh in every Medical "Pioneer" of the "modern" history books as well.

[@Darchdemon]

It wont fail... trust me, if animals survived after that, then a human will sruvive as well... Dont be pessimistic

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

No matter what happens, Dr Sergio Canavero and Valery Spiridonov will go down in medical history as courageous heroes who pushed our knowledge and skills beyond the current boundaries.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

This surgery will be INFINITELY more important and necessary than sending somebody to Mars in a tin can to die.

[@3094usmc]

This man is a very well accomplished Surgeon. He's publish over 100 scientific papers and is in the forefront of neurological research and application. This guy is no fluke. If this man can successfully perform a head transplant his accomplishment will change the world and start a revolution in medicine.

[@dr.dragan]

All his recent articles are in a terrible journal. He was terminated from Turin university hospital. Classic bigheaded quack. Have you read his recent articles? Bizarre

[@Monk_Mode_Master]

It would be so AWESOME if they made this surgery go LIVE for the world to see. Fascinating 👌👌

[@eptile]

manninla lol that wouldn't happen. they wouldn't want bad press if he ducks up

[@zachgamr99]

eptile they would probably record it or have it live for medical experts to view, not for twitch chat.

[@pankourlaut]

With live commentary from youtube viewers :D

[@Digo-eu]

That wil probably never happen due to ethical concerns and to respect the privacy of the patient.

[@yuli1970]

Rodrigo Andrade Oh it's hapenning the end of this year buddy

[@synja]

He had me until that part about where he wants us to raise clones of ourselves and then murder them to take their bodies.

[@dannycool59x49]

its not a bad idea, and does make sense

[@maximalgamingnl9954]

dannycool59x yes it cant be that hard to grow a human body with the brain not experiencing anything, allowing us to harvest all the organs. (Or the entire body, except for the head)

[@GeroG3N]

MaximalGamingNL Is still a human being. He will not be growing in a woman's body, but there will be no difference at all between that clon of you and your twin

[@SlurryNoises]

That part is literally the plot around the book called The House of the Scorpion. Great read, i recommend it - and this is coming from someone who doesn't like reading lol

[@Yasslejezair93]

It's literally The Island scenario

[@worldshaper1723]

THIS WILL SUCCEED!! I believe in it 100 percent! It will be a huge victory to all humanity! We count on you Dr. Sergio Canavero.

[@jonw3462]

this was in 2015 and it still hasn't been done yet. This guy was clearly getting ahead of himself.

[@mjmoonwalkergirl]

I'm really interested in what Sergio had to say and I hope the surgery goes well, but how he gone leave that crushed up banana on the floor like that?

[@MrAdryan1603]

mjmoonwalkergirl lol

[@decatengt887]

Sergio is my real name lol

[@zarifsafwanhoque4127]

osaze oboigba He has turned out to be a conman, as expected. Do not use the word "genius " lightly

[@costajunior1956]

mjmoonwalkergirl This guy makes me fell a whole new level of fear.

[@rukna3775]

@@decatengt887 lol

[@lowmax4431]

I feel like I'm watching the beginning of a superhero movie...

[@eptile]

Brandon Klopp ya. right before he retreats into his lab for some late night work, and all hell breaks loose because he got to crafty/full of himself. and he either creates a monster or becomes one.

[@gracenoel373]

Brandon Klopp omgosh i totally agree!!!

[@barakomamba]

I think it better if we just try it, if it fails than at least we know it doesn't work.

[@BillyBob-qi5lk]

Tolga Saritaş'ın Alnındaki Damar but he is already going to lose his life. His body is rapidly degenerating. Even if he was able to live in his body for a couple of more years, why would he? He would be suffering.

[@goannacs6861]

It doesn't work since we aren't even be able to do it on animals like rats for example.

[@dannycool59x49]

thousands are assasinated, bombed,shot, killed in on going funded civil wars and other conflicts no one bats an eye. Doctors try to swap someones head onto another, people lose their mind.

[@josuecastillo6492]

Billy Bob I’ve read that the guy getting the new body is currently living with pretty acute chronic pain and also paralyzed thats wy he agreed on getting the surgery, at least the man has had something that brings him hope and something to live for, for the past 3 years or so, he was enlisted for euthanasia …if it doesn’t work he will die and released from his suffering and medical community will know more about spinal cord injury and how to fix it

[@vixxcelacea2778]

You risk killing the person. Though with the circumstances and everyones approval, doctors, patient etc, it would be worth trying simply to gather more information. But morally it's a pretty high chance he will die.

[@Maaadzak]

the world needs people like this.

[@AlexIsiv]

This man, whether you realize now or not, is going to be (or already is) the pioneer of the new era for the mankind. As sci-fi as it sounds, this science will eventually be reached, and this man will be remembered as the one who started these procedures, he will be in history and medicinal books and people within a few generations, will read and know about him, just as we do about Newton or Einstein

[@ForestSakan]

Alex Isiv i think a robot body is a better option for guys who have no malfunction in internal organs...no digestive system even require...iv feeding would work for the core to work.

[@vixxcelacea2778]

No, he's pushing hype. While there are various things in medicine that seemed impossible and now are, there are so many complications to head transplantation it's not even funny. It would be far better if we could figure out how to fix spinal issues, which you would need to do anyway to reconnect a new head to a new body. Our bodies reject things. it's hard enough to do face transplants with out things just going "nope" and decaying or the antibodies attacking it. The more likely option is that instead we give artifical bodies and limbs, as both the brain and living tissue left can adapt to that much easier than a foreign biological body. It would be amazing if this was true, but even so, the better option is an artifical body that we can make in time feel just like a humans, but be far more sturdy and likely easier to fix if something does happen to it. It sucks that this probably got a lot of people looking into head transplants hopes up. There is an answer for them, but it's not gonna be a head transplant. There are too many factors to reattatch and make work. At best, you'd just reparalyze the new body because the brain and part of the old spinal cord don't play nicely. Think about it this way. it takes YEARS for our bodies and brain to work together to get anywhere. We learn to walk and move very slowly and even in regular life, sometimes there is just plain a miscommunication and our hands or legs twitch or do the wrong thing other than they were instructed to do. This guy has no proof of what he's been doing as he hasn't tried it on animals and only has used cadavers to just reattatch a head, but nothing has been living. We've proven a long time ago that you can with the proper equipment keep a severed head alive. That's not the problem. The problem is attaching it to a spinal cord and making sure everything can communicate and function the way it should. There's always some outliers in while they mean well, are just spreading false information, ideas and morally dubious concepts. We would have no right to kill our clones. A clone is just a twin person, but it's not you, it's a new human being. Now, if we grew a body that was never a living person with a head in a cultivated way, that's another story, and that is definitely some technology we do not have yet and is redundant in the face of artificial limbs and bodies.

[@ahoybutternuts6039]

@@vixxcelacea2778 OR he will kill people and fail MASSIVE fail.

[@maribel5958]

Just remember my friends, that since time immemorial mankind has always looked down upon those who wish to innovate and try such wonderful things as these. They call them crazy, they make fun of them.... Until they succeed and everyone wants the benefits of their wonderful invention. These are the kind of people who revolutionize the world, and specifically this man, Sergio Canavero, is trying to revolutionize medicine. These are the kind of people we need. The kind of people who have given us everything we have and who will give us unimaginable things. I greatly hope that his project succeeds, even with all that it implies, because in the end, if he really succeeds, it will help too many people to live a more normal and functional life.

[@hyphenpointhyphen]

To all the idiots talking about immortality, this would be prolonged life IFF it works. A brain cell can have a long lifespan but at the end it'll die like any other cell.

[@TheMrBiermann]

this is one of a group of solutions in the future that will indeed make us live more and more to the point that it will be as good as immortality in our concept in the present. to us someone living 300 years is impossible but will be common in 500 years from now(maybe before it)

[@IrKeNoVa]

Mr. Cancer says you're wrong. Just induce cancer onto some of the neurons outside the body. Then take a new young cell, stop it's metabolism, cut the zone where the Cancer gene is and replace it with a gene that induces controlled mitosis and Voilá, new brain cells ready to be put where needed. And If is with one F.

[@hyphenpointhyphen]

Mhm, I can tell you have no scientific or mathematical background - please don't comment on topics you have no knowledge about.

[@IrKeNoVa]

Cancer is by definition an uncontrolled celular division. Cancer has it's origins in a modification of DNA, caused by many factors. We know that some genes, for example the Breast cancer 1 (BRCA1) gene, are implied in the control of normal cellular division. Cancer can happen in any animal tissue, as long as it has living cells. Neurons are "unable" to reproduce, and they can regenerate themselves (at a slow pace). Every cell has the same DNA, and we as humans can alter that genome at will. I've done it, in a much smaller scale, but I've done it. Now, if we induce cancer onto a neuron, it will start to replicate itself. A newly generated cell will have the same altered DNA as the original cell. We can stop a cell's metabolism (One of the steps of cloning is to stop cellular metabolism, and since Dolly and many other cloned animals have lived relatively normal lifes, we can say is a standard process) at a really early stage of it's vital cycle, we can splice the altered DNA, we can replace it with the normal genomic secuence and there it is, a fresh new neuron. And all this can be done in a matter of days. We just need to scale things up. These new neurons can be delivered where needed. It just takes 1 cell to start the process. And btw, I'm studying my major in Biology, and I have a pretty decent score in Physiology, Anatomy, Cellular and Molecular biology, and Calculus (both of them), but I don't see where math is implied in this.

[@IrKeNoVa]

And again, IFF doesn't exist. Use proper English, since I assume it's your native language. Spanish is mine.

[@marcohatley4992]

Metal Gear Solid V!!! HE saved Big Boss! Respect!

[@zerostyle1696]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA

[@adamsapple5544]

If it does happen and it's successful it'll def be the most amazing thing that's ever happened in this world.

[@user-hs2hd7wp9g]

I really don't have the expertise to tell whether he'll succeed or not but you've to start somewhere, that's just the beginning.

[@i2pjd6hRw5P]

It will likely not work. But I don't see it as unethical if the recipient is willing.

[@dannycool59x49]

ethics will always hold back scientific advancement

[@neerajnxt4642]

What about the brain dead donor?

[@DRKNT640]

dannycool59x it's not cool to kill people just to learn something. Ethics exist so we don't blow ourselves up just to prove we could do it

[@darren430]

Animals are not willing recipients of barbaric experiments so why should the human Animal be any different?

[@dannycool59x49]

"ethics exist so we don't blow ourselves up just to prove we could do it" that is a flawed statement as there are currently bombings going on in this world right now. If you're not part of the solution you are part of the problem.

[@fasterFuse]

What a farce. It worries me that this guy has been given such a forum to spout this nonsense. He was in Glasgow yesterday for the Glasgow Neuro Conference and refused to answer questions from consultants. He makes a fair point about spinal cord injury, but regardless of the contrast in trauma, there has been no clear success in promoting complete cellular regrowth or functional re-connection. In addition, he does not seem to refer to the immunological complications at all. Current theories suggest that cells are able to bypass the meninges between the PNS and the CNS (i.e schwann cell migration into the CNS following spinal cord injuries), as well as recent physical evidence of transport portals through which cells can migrate. In this case, there could be very serious consequences in terms of organ rejection, which is even further complication by the fact that newly generated neurons will possess both endogenous and foreign biomarkers. What a mess.

[@emeryell8785]

fasterFuse apparently they've done it successfully with rats

[@sonricssss]

nanomachines able to cut your head of from inside and outside. It sounds terrifying!

[@kingkeefage]

Edel Gerardo Macías Muñoz And, they could do it super fast with less newtons of force due to the force being divided by the nanos.

[@Terabit3]

"Its like spaghetti"

[@shaunbarry4325]

Terabit3 Gaming hahaha!

[@andreeaiuliadan9111]

*Another typical italian*

[@Andrew-nx9tm]

Spaghetti mafia mandolino mammamia ullalah its me mario porcodio e la madonna stuprata :))

[@christianjamesgonzaga5502]

The most endless job of medicine is the quest of making our lives sound and easier...For all i care Dr Canavero, may your plans will be successful enough....

[@AmandaIsSinging]

I think it will work, but not without serious implications. Also, the psychological damage for the patient and donor's family will be tremendous. If he has any movement at all after this surgery (assuming he survives) I don't think he will be able to function much better than he can now (Valery). Also, if he has a genetic disease causing the muscle deterioration, how do you prevent that in another body?

[@daly5297]

Jennifer Cerny he has neuromuscular atrophy. The gene responsible for the synthesis of normal motor neurons is mutated . Therefore his motor neurons are dysfunctional. Now we as healthy people we have functioning motor neurons . Now what's so special about neurons or the nervous system in general ? That it doesn't undergo cell division! Meaning whether you're born with healthy or abnormal neurons , you're not gonna be able to change that. So if his body changes the neurons present in that body won't change and neither the ones he already has .because they're already synthesized. It's just a matter if connecting the head to a body.

[@bobbobbgarte922]

New body would have different genetics from old body. Only head would have different genetics from rest of the body. Rest of the body would not be affected by dystrophy.

[@justingarssacoche]

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

[@josemelendez6860]

Sergio forgets the brain can still reject the body. The Donor body can also reject the head. It would be feasible if both the patient and donor were twins or cloned. But that's not likely to happen.

[@virginiaandrade8981]

"Please try to relax. There's plenty of time. I need to tell you something. Please listen, and try-- not to panic."

[@Gaban23]

So when will the surgery start?

[@codekillerz5392]

AlGaban Nation December this year

[@xvdd1]

Wait a minute, wait minute, have they got a body on ice or something or are they betting on a brain dead individual becoming available in December seems a little bit strange to me that he can put a date on it. Hmm just thought maybe there is an individual on life support somewhere,.......who makes the decision they are truly brain dead though ?

[@viniciusgermano4334]

Maybe they will just kidnap a homeless for scientific purposes.

[@Gaban23]

Yeah..hopefully not...XD

[@theblackbull55]

Why are people so doubtful and negative about this, i don't fucking get it. Theres a volunteer with a life threatening condition, who certainly know the risks, and then they will use a brain dead donor body that will be killed for organs no matter what, so this is only a win-win situation, theres nothing to loose.

[@mendebil]

14:25 seriously? :)

[@skyhigh5135]

Any updates?? Any???????????

[@ahoybutternuts6039]

yeah, 9 rats sucess or so he claims, although other sources say they all died within an hour, some reports of him healing a paralysed dog, but the proof is extremley flimsy at best. As for the volunteer Valery, he fell in love, had a son and cancelled the surgery as he now didn't want the risk....there are interviews with him a couple of years after agreeing to it.

[@eroessler]

The human centipede will become reality...

[@Monk_Mode_Master]

eTown Loooooool

[@APRICEPRODUCTION]

I remember here in the UK about 8-9 years ago a guy had an arm transplant after losing his original arm.... After a couple of weeks, it had to be removed... The body and arm rejected each other, imagine if the head and body rejected each other as well??? This guy is intelligent and educated I give him that, but he's borderline insane, what quality of life would the person who has their head transplanted realistically have? This guy the other day stated he still wants to do this and then unfreeze brains to be transplanted into donor bodies, he really wants to become a real life Frankenstein.... Can you imagine waking up every morning, being essentially a living zombie.... you would be alive in the body of a dead person, you'd think of yourself as you, but would look in the mirror and see someone completely different. Of course that body donor, could instead donate their internal organs and help a number of people who need organs instead of just one person. A heart for a woman or the lungs for a man etc.... Apart from the psychological and physiology effects on the person, would that person even have mobility and be able to move at all? People even today have broken their necks and even with multiple medical operations, still have limited to no ability to move and feel any part of their body.... Yet this guy believes he can do what other doctors can't do and do the impossible... cut off and damage all the nerves, tendons, bone and tissue of a person and then connect them up perfectly to a new body and that person has a 100% quality of movement and feeling? I'm sorry but I don't buy it, all I can see happening is a person waking up from this procedure, either with incredibly restrictive movement or being unable to move or control their new body at all... What if psychologically the brain and the new body become incapable to each other? It's a bit like trying to run a piece of software on a system that isn't compatible... e.g trying to run Windows 7 software on Windows 98?? Has this guy medically been shown or proven to actually operate on a current person with spinal paralyzes and restore their bodies movement and sense of feeling??? Because cutting a person's a head off their body is no different, because your breaking and damaging all the nerves tissues etc that allows that head to move that body. Also with medical enhancements like stem cell research, and machines, this makes the idea what he wants to do, barbaric and obsolete, and simply a doctor who wants to make a name for himself.... Essentially he could be done for manslaughter if he successfully transferred a head to a body and that person survived it, but the body started to reject the head... resulting in death...

[@mariog7213]

I wonder. When this procedure is perfected (it eventually will be) if you transplant your head to a younger body will it allow you to live longer or will the brain eventually deteriorate the rest of the bodie's ability to replicate at a celular level? Will the body help the head regenerate better? Man I hope I live long enough to see the results

[@barefadel4835]

He is gonna absolutly win

[@gb2741]

This will be a very big step for the human race, maybe even the biggest step. I am very glad to see someone who can believe he can do this. congratulations anyway for this step and this thought. if we do not succeed now, we will certainly succeed later, this will certainly be possible if we really want and have enough wisdom in the world to believe that they can succeed. Mr Doctor Canavero, you have all my respect!

[@Villaintrader12]

Wishing it was longer talk. Hope they pull this off. We should all crowd fund this through an ICO in case they want to pull the funding back

[@saintjoe14]

When is this going down, anyone know?

[@jolarkerin888]

September sometime is believed to be the date. If this works I'm going to party, it means a whole new area of science will be discovered.

[@Klimtsmuse17]

JOE JOSEPH December 2017!

[@EpanXD666]

yep in december 2017.i can't wait.i.hope i will long enough to witness this big event in history.

[@jolarkerin888]

Thanks!

[@gracenoel373]

JOE JOSEPH december

[@javkhlanbaatarkhuu4271]

I wish you all the success, from Mongolia.

[@kadiru.4419]

"we managed to transplant his head but he is dead"

[@crazygizmo841]

But if the nerves in the donor body/spinal chord are differently arranged than the nerves within the spinal chord of the acceptant head, how do the nerves which need to be connected, find each other? I really doubt that this will work, but i am still very curious!

[@nunaurbizness3495]

This guy sounds more like a con artist than a surgeon.

[@Arseization]

It is TEDx ans not a medicinal congress so he is talking in a very understandable way for people who did not study Medicine. If you want a scientific presentation held with medicinal termini you should search for those or the studies he released

[@niandralades8180]

My first thought - Dr. Nick Riverra

[@VestigialHead]

+Edvinas Ceilytka Mr Clegg will be the first patient. With a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg.

[@Sirmivorint]

lmao look at his credentials

[@malekaiwebos3045]

Exactly.

[@adaliaguevara3993]

I hope you can do this Dr. Canavero bc it will be amazing. And cloning I personally have always been interested in and can't wait for it to be possible

[@ArjunGNair-br7wf]

His confidence is incredible

[@halloooo1duuuuu]

5:23 as a musician I can tell you: there is absolutely no way an orchestra can play without a conductor.

[@vaibhavkumar8541]

is it been done its 2018.... whats the status of head replacement project in india its already been done hundreads of years ago.......

[@sidtechh4199]

there is something related to the story of Lord Ganesha's head transplantation

[@21stcenturyoptimist]

I still dont know if this is a mgs v the phantom pain prop

[@MrMaxenen11]

This man worries me. I sense a lot of hubris.

[@cincrlatko]

What about the immune response towards transplant ? will the head be consider by body as a transplant and will mount the imune response against the head or the other way around ? i think this might be crucial in long run. Normaly people takes immune supressive medication for rest of their life after succesfull transplant. Are you not afraid the people with head transplant will develop acute or chronic rejection and will suffer from inmesuarable pain by inflamation going on because of this head body fussion ?

[@Ivygonzo]

Why are we not discussing stem cell research ? I am pretty sure that transplant is not the future!

[@ryandepp7640]

For people saying this procedure will never work, that’s what lots of people have said about things that sounded outlandish in their times. People laughed at the idea of sending a man to the moon. And a few (or a lot) of failures doesn’t necessarily mean it is impossible (it took a lot of failures for NASA to develop the Apollo 11 mission), it just means humanity needs to learn more and try differently.

[@Tanveermalik011]

2019 still waiting for miracle.

[@davejoerger8928]

I've been following this doctor and his ideas. His English is so good.

[@saadmobin1383]

2017 is here😓

[@theblackbull55]

end of 2017...

[@maximalgamingnl9954]

Saad Mobin end of 2017 is here

[@kilansgames556]

Saad Mobin Aaand still no transplant

[@dukeofmecklenburg-strelitz8030]

2019 is here

[@cringystingy8025]

2020 is here. Nothing happened

[@sujan09sbb54]

good luck Dr Sergio.....hope ur surgery goes well

[@AnmolSahu]

This is amazing. I can volunteer! But my Mom wouldn't agree at any cost. :(

[@chaycesmom1212]

He seems very confident... as if he's done this before so he knows it's going to work. He said he's been planning this for 30 yesrs... maybe he has actually done this before but can't come out and say it because it wasn't approved at the time.

[@dayanapavlova6000]

As a medical student I can tell you for sure this guy is a madman and there are so many problems in his plan that it will turn into a real life horror movie in a snap.

[@vp3579]

so dr frankenstein is real?

[@Audiostoke1]

Dayana Pavlova Samuel Ung what are the main problems?

[@anuz9997]

he's a neurosurgeon and you are just a ordinary student

[@1010-f1k]

Dayana Pavlova “as a med student”, chill you’re not even close to practicing medicine yet, nonetheless being a neurosurgeon

[@domofarhan6612]

at first people said artificial heart is impossible

[@pistabacsi462]

He presents a good argument for it. It sounds fine as long as they can keep the cells alive in the healthy head and the connections will be made to breath and pump.

[@maximos8075]

This guy thinks that he is Hugo Strange.

[@TheMrBiermann]

*he knows he is

[@abdikarimaliyusuf5634]

lol

[@abdikarimaliyusuf5634]

More like Sergio Strange

[@tr4ckedshot883]

Omg you are soooo right

[@Jacob_frye]

More like Dr dollmaker that freak on the island :)

[@richardvara8124]

He’s definitely ahead of the competition.

[@kutazumo]

i think that the transplant will partially work, because im sceptic of movement of "new" body... and if it works, this operation will solve many many questions to the known world...

[@keshavkeshav64]

I am curious to know does recipient will be same person or he will start a new consciousness as the human babies develop after birth

[@michaeledwards6324]

Is now the end of 2017 and no one has attic successful head transplant nor will it ever scientifically or otherwise work final decision he’s crazy

[@camo7452]

can't wait for the operation , good luck doc

[@AlejandroPerez-tj6ko]

J

[@Bilbocosity58]

this guy can't even make a professional looking PowerPoint, idk how he's gonna put someone's head on someone else's body.

[@jaec100x]

Culdesac Crew yea because a simple slide to show a group of people something is comparable to his ability as a medical professional....

[@jaec100x]

Culdesac Crew I'm a nerd because your dumbass can't understand some basic shit?lol

[@Bilbocosity58]

you don't understand how to put a space between a punctuation mark and the follow word. lol

[@OYI2000]

Lol best comeback ever 10/10

[@Jonathan-ev3qi]

And you can not put a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence

[@johnwilton319]

Well I have 3 questions here as a common man who studied a bit of medicine,How will the doctor tackle 1.tissue rejection 2.blood rejection (if not same blood group)3. Gene rejection by the body or bone marrow rejection.

[@emeye6452]

Antibiotics

[@galefray]

Got some Agent 47 action going.

[@kylesful]

I don't think you guys caught what he said. He said that he's not just doing the head transplant to do it, he's trying to figure out if consciousness lives past death. he said that he wanted to drain the head of all blood and make it as dead as it gets, so that when the guy wakes up from a successful surgery he can say if he was conscious or not. This is one of the universes biggest secrets. I personally have always been afraid of death simply because i feel like it's like being asleep accept you don't think. You don't even know that you're dead. This is such a crazy thing to think about.

[@brandongarrido7580]

he reminds me the guy from the human centipede tho

[@draigan]

lol me2

[@manelumi]

Brandon Garrido omg

[@tiarnan97]

This man will be a hero

[@haiperr6861]

I want my head to be trandplanted on a elephant

[@nnnnssssolo]

Srsly wtf...😂

[@mikym905]

I think you mean an elephant

[@sergeantsushi4962]

I spit my coffee

[@guitarheroprince123]

Forward 2 years. He actually did it! He performed worlds first head transplant!

[@marleoca2644]

Where? When? How?

[@patrickquinn5939]

Corpse head transplant

[@louisewilkshire8442]

so if head to body transplant is successful..guy on guy....what happens to the manhood area? if he was to set out his own family...technically he isn't the father?? man this is so fkd up

[@fallyas]

They said that if he had kids they will be caring the donors DNA .

[@1010-f1k]

Louise Wilkshire I think procreating will be the least of anyone’s problems when transplanting an entire body

[@blacklabel6230]

i think on that last bit he went outside the realm on materialistic science talking about near death experiences not being hallucinations caused by DMT

[@morelavivarayona87]

his presentation on the screen looks like a meme

[@drumfynnfun]

Because of the BBB there is no blood exchange between head and body, but what about different immun cells? The MHC will be different and Cytokine will be transported to the brain. Does anyone know?

[@fatiqued]

He sounds like Steve Jobs who is presenting a new iBrain product :) I wish good luck for Valery and i hope that Dr.Sergio will implement his theories on practice successfully! #stayconscious

[@blaow8140]

Фархад Хагверди: Valery isn't doing it. He backed out.

[@not_active8]

he's smart, full of confident but crazy at the same time. he will achieve big things but there's no guarantee this one will work at first try. you shud've make this test perfect first on animal but he impatiently make a jump from animals to human. he risking the guy's life for his ambition. mark my words if this one failed it won't be the last one he try

[@robtheprocrastinator1197]

This all sounds really crazy, HE sounds really crazy but...I hope this works and I wish him success and if this procedure does happen successfully, I know this will be a new age for medicine for the best. The discoveries and everything else will be revolutionary just think about it. Very hyped and nervous about what may arise from all this. Good luck Dr Sergio (: Btw anyone think in some parts he sounds like Hoyt from Far Cry 3? No? Just me? k...