Dr. Robert J. White, a neurosurgeon of Case Western Reserve University, received a burst of media attention by promoting what he called “whole-body transplant for quadriplegic. Because the brain can’t function without the head’s wiring and plumbing Dr. White renowned, a brain transplant, at least initially, would be a head transplant. And because of yuck factor, he choose to call such an operation as whole-body transplant. Quadriplegics often die prematurely because of multiple-organ failure. Quadriplegics is a person who is permanently unable to move or feel his body because of injury or illness. If the surgeon can transfer the healthy body of the donor, such as the people who died in brain disease or brain-dead individual, to the healthy quadriplegic it may be possible for brain transplantation but in the case there are many problems that we have to overcome. Brain-dead patients already serve as a multiple-organ donors, so a whole-body transplant is not as dreadful as it might at first sound. Dr. White retired as neurosurgeon after 60 years as a brain surgeon but he is still active as a writer and consultant.
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He states that technically human brain transplant can be done in the near future after 100 years because there are many circumstances happen during the operation, so the surgeon must find way on how it will be
He states that technically human brain transplant can be done in the near future after 100 years because there are many circumstances happen during the operation, so the surgeon must find way on how it will be