Sergio Canavero

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) and Textbook of Cortical Brain Stimulation (De Gruyter Open, 2014), and , in Italian, two books on human sexual behavior, Donne Scoperte e Uomini a Nudo (Ed.Clandestine, 2005 and 2007). With AMAZON he published IMMORTAL. Why Consciousness is Not in the Brain and HEAD TRANSPLANTATION and the Quest for Immortality (2014). 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) You may contact the author at: sercan@inwind.it