World's First Head Transplant: What's Involved?

[@earlycuyler8719]

I've done this a hundred times on my sisters Barbie dolls! I know it works.

[@mauiss]

lol toy story reference...

[@Amanda-rx8qx]

LOL

[@HarpreetSingh-qj1ov]

Hahaha

[@sahilbeersingh1232]

Clowers Hiball 😂

[@clarissamanaguelod7596]

Clowers Hiball😂

[@herbivorethecarnivore8447]

For anyone who wants to know how this went, the patient backed out because he had just had an unexpected son and couldn't risk the surgery.

[@rabiealkurba2520]

Lol

[@herbivorethecarnivore8447]

@@rabiealkurba2520 no idea where the joke is but alright

[@clumsyroad4026]

lmao

[@rvttle]

haha

[@colemorrow5042]

ofc, lol

[@chancenieland]

Wouldn't this technically be a body transplant?

[@oneoverxx8324]

Only if they move the body to the head Bone head lol

[@sherinshrinbolt6191]

how will the doctor find the donor having neck bon of same diameter as like patients neck bon diameter

[@dextercupido337]

eveningcook but our consciousness in our brain

[@len897]

Yes it should be a body transplant not a head transplant. Idiots don't even get the terms right

[@cheekypepsi8772]

radiality yes!

[@chandlerplusbass]

Am I the only one who feels like these guys are being super passive-aggressive to one another?

[@TheDogPebbles]

trur

[@swaxsmax7231]

So true😂

[@D3w10n]

He was because every sane doctor could not accept that reattaching spinal cord will yield any useful connection... just until a bunch of Chinese doctors did the spinal cord reattachment and heads transplants on mice that this whole concept is beginning to sound less like a scifi story and more like a reality. Its seems that (at first look kinda looney) Italian doctor might have been right all along.

[@D3w10n]

***** Head transplant YES, but not spinal cord reattachment.

[@ronniecollum6638]

10n-- i believe there is research where nerve cells can be induced to grow together with electrical and chemicals pushing the process , cutting edge stuff no pun intended

[@theinternetstolemysoulbuti2740]

once this technology is perfected I want my head attached to a goat

[@PabloEscobar-oc2lq]

but why?

[@theinternetstolemysoulbuti2740]

Goats are dope

[@southeasegirl2329]

and i want my head attached to hot guy

[@zageous]

@@southeasegirl2329 But your face is ugly.

[@ErlitaMengullo560]

hahaha crazy

[@Rito.94]

I think one of the biggest risks would be prompted by the brains recognition of nerve, muscle, organ, etc memories. Through life your brain gets used to identified body parts, but if the transplant is successful per say having the head remain alive, the real challenge is for the brain to recognize the new body as new host. Either the brain adapts to move a new finger or send signals to new organs, or it just goes into shock for failing to identify the location of the organs, then shutting down. Transplants of smaller magnitudes are needed. And a strong will patient that is ready for everything and anything anytime.

[@scorpion4351]

Okay genius

[@Deleted11100]

Cheers John

[@Hazelo_yt]

🤓☝️

[@med8615]

Doesn't the spinal cord not heal? Isn't that why people stay paralyzed?

[@mesa9724]

It's more complicated than that. But that is preety much it.

[@med8615]

Knights Templar Well neurons in the central nervous system don't contain any neurilemma (promotes axon regeneration) unlike neurons in the peripheral nervous system so they can't be repaired. Atleast from what I remember, so I'm confused how the neurons in the spinal cord just repair themselves with this magical "glue".

[@mesa9724]

U N But still. There would be numerous other problems.

[@med8615]

Knights Templar Hmm well I guess we'll have to wait till December 2017, the date of the operation.

[@mesa9724]

U N Cant wait

[@below_average_student]

I wasn’t originally going to get a brain transplant, but then I changed my mind..

[@romankinakh2009]

good one

[@Deleted11100]

Slow clap

[@jakeaftermath7563]

Not a brain transplant, the brain is not being replaced, the entire body is being replaced. The brain is still the same brain.

[@nielnielsen4822]

So will he have 2 birthdays?

[@jovanmrdalj2339]

interesting

[@prudhvi9256]

2 death anniversaries and 1 new birthday

[@esesininkas]

Thats a very good question. The donor body would had been born on a different day(month, year) than a transplanted head. So, after the surgery is completed, how old is he?..

[@sunnyahmed5075]

Should be 3

[@poiiiiiiiiiii3049]

Double the gift

[@herebybuu]

The doctors after making a real life brain transplant "Patrick say something patrick!"

[@mr.awesome8399]

Something tells me that a head transplant is more difficult then unplugging an extension cord from one outlet, and then plugging it into another

[@bigfloppa9384]

This is real life JoJo, DIO would be impressed.

[@joceylynmorningstar121]

WRRYYYYYY

[@joehernandez3817]

they should put a Bulls head and connect it to a human body

[@CanIHazMudkipz]

that'd be cool.

[@300apes]

Man Bear Pig

[@Norwegian733]

No, they should put the mans head on a bull. Much cooler.

[@seandermont3469]

penis transplant

[@spikespiegel751]

+Watermelon Are your balls the eraser?

[@lifehumblesyoueitherway]

I “lost my head” watching this

[@arielmercado6972]

😂😂

[@scuffnsc]

Dad jokes😂😂

[@hassanshabih7325]

Me too

[@doctordycanballs]

😐

[@justinheadley9453]

I think they can do it. I don’t think the guy would survive too long but that’s the first step to success!

[@darthtyrismasteroffear.]

Wouldn’t the guy still be paralyzed at the end.

[@DrewGoSomewhereUnknown]

Your literally gonna transfer the whole nervous system, connect the eyes, taste, pain, smell

[@omen828]

1. A head. 2 Some needles. 3. Some thread. 4. er... 5. That's it.

[@moelester4820]

Nemo yous hould definetly become a surgeon

[@omen828]

Dragos Secrieru Lol, thanks, but I can't stand the sight of blood or even ketchup :D

[@moelester4820]

Nemo yeah that was sarcastic

[@omen828]

James Worth And an electrical Zzzzt thing that makes sparks and goes Zzzzzt! :-)

[@minimichelson]

+Nemo Hold my drink......I got this

[@kelsterzlolli8197]

To be completely honest, I rather die than look like a stranger and I don't think this will work

[@sasamiksovsky5214]

kelsterz lolli your head strangers body holy... lol

[@sasamiksovsky5214]

I actually do,other then astral travel this live is boring.

[@alphyzqrw7222]

Doctors need to find a way to make USB port on a human brain so that we could record our dreams in a flash disk and watch it later

[@golden300velvet7]

10 Year Jail Sentence to me : )

[@Secter84]

Or upload information straight to your brain like on the matrix. 🧠

[@alphyzqrw7222]

@@golden300velvet7 😆😆😆

[@deedeecampbell8823]

This is fascinating!!! I love science, and I never question the mountains we can conquer if we believe!! However, a surgery of this magnitude is bound to come with a great deal of risks; however, if this surgeon can pull it off, he will definitely be remembered and praised!!!! I want to become a successful neurosurgeon like that!!! And like Ben Carson!! God bless both the doctor and the patient!!!

[@bobsaget9717]

Ben Carson is a joke, a laughing stock!

[@Food00]

@@bobsaget9717 why?

[@nickadams1992]

He falls asleep during every surgery and can't even fully open his eyes.

[@daybreakgray3452]

😮

[@AncientPurpleDragon]

Funny if he wakes up and they've given him a black man's body...

[@andz0426]

This made me laugh 😂

[@tomjackson2151]

+AncientPurpleDragon lol

[@TheTechBite]

+AncientPurpleDragon I kek'd

[@anlacombe]

+AncientPurpleDragon the man getting the surgery actually said all he requires is the donor be male and white

[@TheTechBite]

eveningcook Imagine the look on his face as a decapitated head with a failed reattachment surgery.

[@nadinewhite993]

All the very best to Valery Spiridonov, the gentleman who will undergo this. He's very brave. I wish him complete success.

[@serenahopeisabella2226]

not anymoreee

[@Adnan_Khan__111]

@@serenahopeisabella2226 why

[@phillyboul3117]

@@Adnan_Khan__111 he got married

[@kerbal8216]

@@Adnan_Khan__111he cancelled it years ago it never happened

[@fitnessunleashed5646]

This comment didn't age well..

[@Muuip]

I understand the moral aspect of giving a lifelong quadraplegic individual a chance to have a potentially more functional body. The research point here is the "gluing" of the spinal cord with Polyethylenglycol to the new spinal cord. Imagine a very wide electrical cable composed of thousands of smaller electrical cables each having a specific functions, how can this main cable be glued back on so that all smaller cables it is composed of match perfectly? How can all the nerves in the spinal cord match perfectly the nerves of the donor? Once this is done, how can the brain relearn the functioning of the new vital organs like heart and lungs?

[@odenirongiant]

Wouldn't the "donor" head then become the true person ? In theory couldn't one live indefinitely with your head being removed and the body being replaced with a young one time after time ?

[@mlr.9257]

yeah I was thinking the same thing. Also what about the brains? If someone cuts off person A's head and puts person B's head on A's shoulders then A would have B's brain. It wouldn't be A anymore. It would be B with another body. Also if there's a head donor they should probably be dead..? If person B is dead and B's head is being used for A then A couldn't even be alive in the end bc B is already dead.. Shouldn't it be a body-donor then? So that the person is still the same person but has another body? Maybe I got something wrong (probably).

[@michaelized]

Brain cells age too and can only replicate but so many times.

[@heavysaber9431]

I believe the correct one should be "body" donor

[@FuManBoobs]

I heard smoking cannabis makes it work again...

[@FowlorTheRooster1990]

we die when our brains die even if our bodies are healthy

[@RealChiliConQueso]

The lengths some people will go to just to get a little head...

[@britneymartin452]

If they can actually do this, then I do not understand why they can't repair spinal cord injury. This means severing and re-attaching a spinal cord, even the way he explains it makes no sense. This will cause not just an injury but actually completely sever the spinal cord, it makes no sense. I love medical science but this just goes too far, invest more time in more useful research that doesn't involve mutilation of a corpse.

[@kennethibaoc4801]

👏👏👏👍👍👍

[@imrcreeper1714]

because its risky...but both are risky...so.....science?

[@justinwaters2104]

"If." This procedure has never taken place before. Even if successful, there's a risk of infection and the head rejecting the new body later down the road.

[@jackietheintern808]

Well if someone is going to die anyway, they might as well give it a try right? And they will still learn so much whether it fails or succeeds

[@caribbeanman3379]

+Justin Waters, it wouldn't be the head rejecting the body. It would be the body rejecting the head. But the risk of infection and rejection is no different than in any other transplant operation.

[@nkydn]

POV u fall asleep first at the sleepover

[@theblackbull55]

What will happen to the souls from the bodies combined?

[@turboz2001]

theblackbull55 the soul is in the brain I think

[@ENZOxDV9]

theblackbull55 what souls?

[@muncheybobo3772]

lmao what

[@brandontime6904]

The ultimate being is born.

[@COOLGODBOSS]

aint no soul....get back on earth bro dont lose it

[@AfterTheRain_Beth]

I keep looking for the date of this video like it's gotta be April 1st.

[@braiden.jarr1813]

Imagine how brilliant that guy has to be to come up with that

[@leandro4552]

or crazy

[@W.LL1999]

@@leandro4552 Often at that level of genius the two become indistinguishable. And it wasn't just one person, but rather likely hundreds of people working on the subject.

[@anovemberstar]

I'm confused ... they say the donor head will be moved to the recipients body ... but isn't it the other way aruto no? Ie, the donor (whose dead obviously) gives their BODY to the recipient (who is alive, keeps his / her head, just has a new body).?????

[@enderguy2491]

Dio would be proud

[@joshuaolsoncook]

Is he Dio Brando or B.J. Blazkowicz?

[@kooku649]

Joshua Olson Cook finally ive been waiting for a comment about DIO

[@diobrando690]

IT ME DIO

[@nathaniel04]

KONO DIO DA!

[@FullPowerLoL168]

ahhhh, i wanna kill more people in Rome

[@goldendrake9669]

no no no Dio with Jonathan's body is called DIO

[@FutureAIDev2015]

I wonder... If one were to somehow keep a brain alive while isolated from a body, and feed it inputs approximating the sensory information it would normally receive, would it be "conscious", with the consciousness being limited to its inputs?

[@urbexingTss]

i know im 5 years late but technically yes

[@leewightman8619]

I don't think it's possibal trust me I'm a Dr....hence the spelling

[@skopjemk]

there is no chance this will every work and thats why it has never been done

[@aragorn767]

I'm assuming the donor (in this case the body) is been declared brain dead and is being kept alive for donation purposes. The head will be that of the patient, who for whatever reason, needs a new body to live. Seems excessive, but it makes sense.

[@RealRatchet]

that readon is he's going to die anyway, he's a millionaire so why not give your only chance at saving your life.

[@BlaiNeII]

One step closer to the heads in Futurama

[@nathaniel04]

*THIS SURGERY IS A JOJO REFERENCE.*

[@eldoc6394]

Man Set to Undergo World's First Head Transplant Backs Out After Finding Love and Becoming a Dad

[@yvs707]

"The donor head is moved on to a recipient body." ...Wait, wait, wait.... > The Recipient head is moved to a donor body!* The head is the person (or the brain I should say); the body is just a body w/o the head. Get it right.

[@teachingtruthmission2140]

why am.i watching thid

[@presto709]

The doctor seems slightly less familiar with the procedure than the interviewer.

[@isabellagriggs8754]

What about all the nerves in the spinal cord? How would those fuse together?

[@myth5306]

Fuse it like electric wires 😂

[@cousinleigh1470]

They don’t this can’t be done yet

[@Guritno]

So, will there be heads market?

[@raptorx4724]

I guess the unknown is going to be how the patient and his or her brain will adapt to a complete new body, new nerve system, organs, in general new connection. This will be medicine at a different level.

[@thehumancanary131]

Absolutely ridiculous! Lining up the nerve fibres to the CNS so they function properly is way, way beyond current capabilities. How did Crocker allow himself to be inveigled into appearing on this show?

[@1baud]

I had a head transplant years ago, I just changed women!

[@handel136]

Serious???

[@john1105]

I don’t get it 👎

[@Secter84]

Lol

[@Lovely-l5y]

Did this work?

[@dumpling3309]

I still don't think that's possible. I think if they do it, it would be a horrifying experience for the person experiencing it.

[@LilXancheX]

I Can just imagine if it ever happened to me. I wouldn’t feel like me, because this new Body will feel gross to me

[@Izakokomarixyz]

Would he be taking anti rejection medication for his body or for his head?

[@mr.awesome8399]

both!

[@jotarojoestar7099]

So this is how dio did it huh

[@joshuamead3194]

Did this ever even happen? Does anyone know??

[@devin11007]

_I think the neural communication network between the body and brain is unique to each individual. If that original network is severed I don't think it can adapt to a new body but my hypothsis could be completely wrong._

[@mrsinistersixty9748]

Won't the body reject the head?

[@novai6554]

Only if they are different blood types, but they could take a little bit to get used to.

[@uiomi]

+MrSinisterSixty Yes. Not mention gluing the spinal cord back on will do nothing but keep it stuck there. The millions of nerves aren't going to know how to reconnect themselves on their own, nor will the millions of blood vessels, the main artery and veins of the neck, and of course the cerebral spinal fluid. This is ideological medicine. It had no merit and no chance of ever working. Once the spine is severed, that man is dead.

[@MouseGoat]

+Uiomi um, actually we have found ways to make nerves reconnect, and the millions of blood vessels are every day work nowadays for a surgeon.

[@joshhunt955]

+MrSinisterSixty It is the HEAD so body cant reject.

[@EmblaWanderer]

+VenneX Geometry Dash The blood is actually your last concern when it comes to compatible body and head, there is cell compatibility too, like in organ transplants that is a WAAAAAAY worse reaction than a blood reject. Literally your antibodies and macrophagic cells will eat the other cells xd

[@livinglandmine4374]

Fascinating, yet none the less creepy.

[@Oscarkakaka]

The doctor did not explain how fast the cut-off head need to be put in place.

[@hendrixplek]

Lol, how he wears his medical clothes to seem more genuine 😂

[@Micycle35]

How exactly is the severed head going to be oxygenated? Through the tubes that connects it to the other body?

[@cameopowell3364]

Yes

[@sososnagahae8169]

Is that a Dio reference?

[@burritoshake]

I wanted to look this surgeon up but he's since passed on, rest in peace

[@pondfish9]

If this is ever perfected, I want to attach my head to a robot...

[@Elraplex_ssj]

it will done 10 YEARS after iniciating the surgeon(using figurated language)

[@diobrando690]

that is right i did this to my jojo friend who died and save his body very detailed GOOD VIDEO ESPECIALY TO A VAMPIRE LIKE ME

[@リーダーKn11111]

WRRYYYYYYYY

[@AlAmin-do2fu]

How it possible? My thinking isn’t large in this procedure,becouse head transplant isn’t available in country

[@rrsparkz4952]

The amount of times they said umm or uh

[@TaufiqMonroe]

hahaha i thought im gonna watch the video but end up laughing from reading all the comments..

[@ultimatesunrise]

Would this prove the afterlife isn't real?

[@mairavic2677]

wait correct me if I'm wrong here but essentially what he is doing is bringing a person back to life? Because someone elses head would have the eyes, brain etc to process what is going on... I'm very confused.

[@ce5962]

Beautiful surgery! Hope it goes well :D

[@TeW33zy]

ok so if this is a head transplant im curious to ask then what is a body transplant, samething right?

[@FowlorTheRooster1990]

its basically moving your brain onto someone elses body

[@vanharleydizon4605]

If we assumed success, then what will be his identity? The head owner name or the bodies owner name?

[@saliferousthesaltconsuming5921]

Head owner since it’s his Brian, think of it more like a body transplant, just a much bigger scaled version of an organ transplant which happens all the time

[@isaaczacroland]

Who would actually die to give up their perfectly healthy body for someone to transplant their head to

[@Lukinaification]

They would use the body of a brain dead patient.

[@Nina-mk5qy]

Who else is still waiting ??? Ugh it's taking forever

[@ArtioYT]

👀

[@khunpingpong]

Have heard about the reject from body transplant. Now who reject, the body or the head?

[@uniqueusername3574]

There’s no way this could work

[@main8689]

People said that to phones but look at them now

[@aavocado8058]

@@main8689 also heart transplants

[@pbijoyasingha7700]

This comment section seems like my cousins talking gibberish.

[@askingalexandria3944]

Poor volunteer, I understand his struggle with his current body. but I'm afraid that it will not end well. I hope he change his mind.

[@anlacombe]

+Asking Alexandria agreed . hes trading a bleak existence for certain oblivion.. im sure he sees the possibility of success as being slim .. but to me its suicide....something of a bird in the hand versus two in the bush problem

[@renatonovis]

+anlacombe have some faith in modern medicine... we have people officially considered cyborgs wandering about, why not a head transplant?

[@opual5201]

So which one is the donor and which one is the recipient?

[@dnlcast2]

I think the nerves wont work, he will be paralyzed, if he survives

[@dawoodchatha4553]

first of all who's gonna donate his healthy body that's just fucked up

[@sarahbrennan1342]

Or god luv him extreme pain...🌺

[@Lukinaification]

@@dawoodchatha4553 They would use the body of a brain dead patient

[@hardchaps]

Too good to be true. It would be a very dangerous operation. I don't think it will work. Have they done it already?

[@ellybean5868]

There comes a time when things have just gone too far

[@ibrahimkuyumcu2649]

Amen Ra.

[@williamrisbridger60]

I still think these so-called ‘steam trains’ are an affront to God’s divine plan.

[@ibrahimkuyumcu2649]

@@williamrisbridger60 Depends on which worldly leadership it is under.

[@KLassik-YT]

How will the neurons be connected ?

[@bruciekibbutz7251]

well, let's see what science can do !! good luck to him

[@astrostar4181]

How about saving the neck bone and spine and fit it in the new head?

[@ΑνηξεροςΤρικερατοπας]

In any way someone can think about this, it seems like an obvious failure. But the doctors must know better. I don't know what the hell is going on here.

[@zero-nine7570]

where are they now?

[@freefall9112]

Brain scientists? This goes straight over my head.

[@Genie.b.poderosa]

How did it turn out ? There is nothing i find about it

[@mr.awesome8399]

It would be interesting to see if the soul resides in the head or the body

[@Bruh-xj7zb]

Head cus it have the brain which control the whole body

[@goldroger7180]

then what is the percentage of success rate for this?

[@sleepycobra9152]

Does he hold a memory of the past ?

[@sudhirshukla2482]

what will happen to the donors head and the patients body will they be fused together or just thrown away

[@lionsinofprideescanor8709]

Imagine if they perfected that surgery.. there would be lots of em old heads with younger body walking around on Earth lol

[@kevinjackson6387]

This guy is ahead of his game

Uhh.... it's a body transplant,,,, make it interesting,,,,, pick a Black body.....

[@minimichelson]

+Ivana Notyers thats the only restriction the patient has imposed....he wants one of the same race.....although he didnt specify the sex.....hummm...

[@minimichelson]

true... i take it back ...we dont need anymore of those jenners

[@XtoCee]

+Ivana Notyers Imagine him being White and wakening up to a black body whilst having a white head.

[@Jamez8888]

+Ivana Notyers Doctors tend to use black people for this type of stuff I wouldn't be surprised. I heard Black peoples organs are superior.

[@keifferlover6241]

I can just see the news headlines now, I was born white, but I'm really a small asian man

[@dakotawinters5062]

So what if it doesn’t work? They just die? Do they get their originals bodies back if it didn’t work?

[@Psych0tikk]

Weird Science - Oingo Boingo

[@swiggityswag9311]

What happends if the donor body is young and the head is very old will the old person become young?

[@djscooter666]

I wouldn't trust a neurosurgeon who can't even use tweezers to pluck his unibrow.

[@brooklyntini4678]

Scotty P he's not the one doing the transplant.

[@JustSome1chillin]

Okay, what are the conditions that must be meet for this to work?

[@jman8194]

Hm that's odd last time I checked the very first head transplant took place on a honeymoon boat in the year of 1899 occurring with a blue hair to British man who went by the name of Jonathan holding his adopted vampire brothers head.

[@spiritdreamer70]

Was Dr. Frankenstein's medical book found??