Mind Set Daily

Topic covered on today's episode of Mind Set Daily "Human Head Transplants Now a Reality?" Human head transplants? A Neurosurgeon says ‘we have the technology. An Italian neuroscientist says that human head transplants are possible using currently available medical techniques. And he's setting up a project to prove it. Dr. Sergio Canavero, who works for the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, published his proposal in the medical journal Surgical Neurology International —and he's calling it the "first human head transplantation with spinal linkage. "The greatest technical hurdle to such an endeavor, he says, is the reconnection of the donor's and recipient's spinal cords. He claims advances in cell and nerve engineering mean surgeons can now theoretically fuse a human spinal cord. We've become accustomed to science fiction predicting our future in the way of gadgets, but it now looks like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein may have been just as much of an early look into future of medical science as fictional t