Head Transplantation: and the QUEST for IMMORTALITY (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781503243224)

Sergio Canavero (MD, US FMGEMS) is a functional neurosurgeon. He is the discoverer of the genesis of central pain syndromes: for this feat, he has been hailed as "benefactor of mankind" and "Italian genius of the first order" by the US website www.painonline.org (2007). He is a leading expert in the field of electrical and chemical neuromodulation: he invented extradural motor cortex stimulation for Parkinson disease, bifocal cortical stimulation for the vegetative state and co-introduced extradural cortical stimulation for stroke rehabilitation. His books include: Central Pain Syndrome (Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2011), Textbook of Therapeutic Cortical Stimulation (Nova Sci., 2009), Textbook of Cortical Brain Stimulation (De Gruyter Open, 2014) and Immortal: Why Consciousness is not in the Brain (CSIPS/AMAZON, 2014), and, in Italian, two books on human sexual behavior, Donne Scoperte e Uomini a Nudo (Ed.Clandestine, 2005 and 2007). He is universally known for his HEAVEN/GEMINI project of head-body transplantation. He also made the news following publication of his project of cortical neuromodulation for psychopaths. He is a TEDx speaker (http: //www.ustream.tv/recorded/52890140