HEAD TRANSPLANTATION SURGERY(H.T.S)

-Presentation byA.Raviteja

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H.T.S:-

• INTRODUCTION • HISTORY• PROCEDURE OF THE SURGERY• SCIENCE FICTION TO REALITY• IS THINKING POSSIBLE WITHOUT

BRAIN ?• WHO IS THINKING ?• CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION:-

• A head transplantation surgery is an operation which involves the grafting of one organism's head on to the body of another .It has successfully performed on animals but their is no human known to have undergone the procedure.

This surgery is the first human head transplant surgery which carries about 36 hrs and more than 100 specialist doctors involved in the surgery.

HISTORY:-

• In 1908,may 21, Dr. Charles Claude Guthrie was first to perform head transplantation on dog .

• In 1950 at sovient union ,Dr.vladhimir Demikhov also performed surgery on a dog which died in to days due to Immue reactions.

• In 1959 china announced they had succeeded in transplanting lead of a dog to the body in second time.

• In 1996 Dr.vladhimir Demikhov again did the surgery on a monkey.

• In 2002 in japan Dr. white made this surgery on a rat.

• Recently Dr.Jiya voping of china made on 1000 rats.

Now, both Dr.Jiyavoping &Dr.sergio canavero were trying to do the first human head transplant surgery on a Russian computer programmer "valery spiridonov"who is suffering with werding-Hoffmann disease.

PROCEDURE FOR THE SURGERY:-

• Temperature below-20 Degrees• Removing the heads from the bodies a part .• Attaching head with polieathileen Glycal.• Attaching the vertebral arteries and carotids to

head and body.• patient was sent to the coma artificially for 4

weeks.• meanwhile patient was given several shock

treatments.• patient was given with the medicines and the

counseling by the surgeons.

SCIENCE FICTION TO REALITY:-

There are some science fiction and culture influence on this surgery.some of them are:-

• 1972- "The things with two heads"movie featured with a head transplantation.

• 1970-"Dystopia" novel by"Ira levin" contains the head transplantation.

• 2008- The x files: I want to believe Heads transplans are being carried out illegally in "west verginia"by a russian medical team.

• The book " The day after tomorrow"by Allen folsom.

• There are some cultural influences like lord Ganesha's head was transplanted by an elephants head due to lord shiva's anger which made to cut-off the head of the Ganesh.

And other books,films etc.,were some of the science fictioned one's and cultural influences.

IS THINKING POSSIBLE WITHOUT A BRAIN?

Thinking is not only done by the brain some parts of the body also have the ability.We can say by some of the examples:-

• Marine animal like Starfish,Jelly fish doesn't have the brain.

• In colorado of America a hen lived for 18 months without it's head and made everyone starred at it.

• In A.P recently a hen lived for about 6hrs without head.

Then, how it is possible to live without brain/head.This question may raise in your mind? Yes,it is possible when the head was cut off from the body the head was separated from the body but in some cases the spinal cord in which has the circuits which helps to store the oxygen which helps to body parts to work normally.There is an other example for this.

In florida of America a boy named "Emate Bueyel" born without the brain. Everyone thought he would die but he lived and recently celebrated his first birth day few months before and also able to speak the words.

WHO IS THINKING?

Though the brain was not there,but their is an ability to think because the parts under the brain (or) the other body parts has some ability to think. Especially,in the heart there are some neurons which can able to think and remember.

In a film a hero met with an accident and lost eyes and then his eyes were replaced by the eyes of a swamiji who was murdered. Then the hero able tor remember the last moments of the life. This shows the heart/some body parts has thinking power and also it remembers some moments of the life.

• Jerry’s heart transplantation to Carter• 29 years women had heart transplant

surgery from another 19 years aged women

• In these two conditions,the heart had the ability to remember the last moments of the life.This shows that the heart has the thinking power and also it remembers some moments of the life

CONCLUSION:-

• Although being very controversial,head transplant (or) whole body transplant is a subject that needs to be considered as it is a theoritically feasible procedure and is risky &also it is horrible yet incurable condition.

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