1st Human Head Transplant! – Brad Jersak

First Successful Human Head Transplant! A first successful human head transplant?! Who?! When?! I don't think it was Dr. Sergio Canavero. He was the Italian surgeon who claimed to be the first to perform the surgery successfully. But I don't buy it, for the simple fact that his subject was already deceased... and stayed that way. Cadavres don't count. I know it wasn't Valery Spiridonov. He is a Russian man who suffers from Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, an irreversible muscle-wasting condition. Valery volunteered to be the first subject of a full human head transplant. Reports vary on why he 'bowed out' but he claimed to have found love and ...