{"id":25735,"date":"2016-05-14T09:50:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/head-transplant-ops-will-work-say-experts-but-the-side-effects-could-be-the-worst-form-of-insanity-ever-experienced-by-a-human"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:51:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:51:21","slug":"head-transplant-ops-will-work-say-experts-but-the-side-effects-could-be-the-worst-form-of-insanity-ever-experienced-by-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/head-transplant-ops-will-work-say-experts-but-the-side-effects-could-be-the-worst-form-of-insanity-ever-experienced-by-a-human","title":{"rendered":"Head transplant ops \u2018will work\u2019, say experts\u2026 but the side effects could be the worst form of insanity ever experienced by a human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/img.thesun.co.uk\/aidemitlum\/archive\/02861\/GettyImages-46196_2861957al.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A RUSSIAN man who has a debilitating illness has volunteered to become the first person to undergo a head transplant \u2013 but experts say the side effects of the procedure could be worse than death.<\/p>\n<p>Valery Spiridonov, 30, suffers from Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial operation will involve cooling his head to around 12 degrees Celsius, cutting it from his body and connecting it to the donated body of a brain-dead person.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/features\/7147862\/Head-transplant-ops-will-work-say-experts-but-the-side-effects-could-be-the-worst-form-of-insanity-ever-experienced-by-a-human.html\">http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/features\/7147862\/Head-t...human.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A RUSSIAN man who has a debilitating illness has volunteered to become the first person to undergo a head transplant \u2013 but experts say the side effects of the procedure could be worse than death. Valery Spiridonov, 30, suffers from Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy. The controversial operation will involve cooling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41871,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25735\/revisions\/41871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}