Dog head sans body; alive?

[dirtycommiebastard]

http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/005259.html

In the link above you will find a supposed explanation and video of 'Soviet' scientists reanimating a dogs head with a machine after it has been decapitated.

I don't know if this has been posted before, or if the Mods don't consider this Science and Environment 'worthy' but I think this is interesting if it isn't a hoax.

I looked up the film on Wikipedia. Apparently the heads only survived a few minutes.

[Lost In Translation]

Wow, that is freaky. Reminds me of the decapitated heads in Futurama. But if you had blood and a pump to simulate a heart, shouldn't it (in theory) work on the head?

[dirtycommiebastard]

Wow, that is freaky. Reminds me of the decapitated heads in Futurama. But if you had blood and a pump to simulate a heart, shouldn't it (in theory) work on the head?

Yes, but as some critics have stated, they used only oxygenated blood and the brain needs many more nutrients to stay alive. That's why they supposedly died after a few minutes.

What I wonder is, could this be done with humans, and could they be brought back from the dead before the cells in their brain die.

[Lost In Translation]

This technology is certainly interesting, but I can't see any use for it. If it's just the head, what can it do except talk. It's sidetracking from more important problems, IMO.

[TC]

Yes, but as some critics have stated, they used only oxygenated blood and the brain needs many more nutrients to stay alive. That's why they supposedly died after a few minutes.

What I wonder is, could this be done with humans, and could they be brought back from the dead before the cells in their brain die.

It basically is done with humans during cardiopulmonary bypass for heart surgery except for the whole body not just the head obviously.

[dirtycommiebastard]

It basically is done with humans during cardiopulmonary bypass for heart surgery except for the whole body not just the head obviously.

You are right. I wonder though what it would be like to be conscious and have no body, only control over facial muscles.

[mykittyhasaboner]

thats a very disturbing video, maybe its the music. plus i cant imagine how the dog must be feeling...

What I wonder is, could this be done with humans, and could they be brought back from the dead before the cells in their brain die.
perhaps this can give you some insight...


Some of the answers are surprising. The answer to "Can you keep a severed head alive?" is yes. In fact, the U.S. government granted a patent in 1988 for a device to do just that, which means the talking celebrity heads in TV's "Futurama" may not be so outlandish after all.
Juan also points to research in the early 1970s in which the heads of rhesus monkeys were kept alive for as long as 36 hours, with the heads conscious and capable of biting. Keeping alive severed human heads, he acknowledges, "raises enormous ethical and legal, as well as medical, questions."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20040918/ai_n10039753

[Module]

Weird.
Slightly disturbing.
Imagine how that dog must feel, having no body, and having somebody hit a hammer in front of you, to make you flinch and be unable to get away. :blink::(

[dirtycommiebastard]

I just watched the entire video (20 minutes) Experiments in the Revival of Organisms.

They take a live dog, drain it of all its blood, and leave it dead for 10 minutes. Then artificially pump the blood back into it and it is reanimated. I thought it was neat.

Though this can't work after very much time, eventually cells actually die and deteriorate.

Who said the Soviets had bad technology? :)

[Bluetongue]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwPBE7fXj4k


This is one of the reasons why animal research is so restricted now. 99.999% of the human race will react to this with screaming horror. I'm not against animal research (I *do* it), but there have to be limits.