Head Transplant: Spinal Cord Fusion Key to Procedure
From: Rehab Management - 04/15/2015

Plans have already been put in motion to perform what is reported as the
first human head transplant within the next 2 years. A 30-year-old Russian
man affected by a rare muscle wasting condition has stepped forward to be the
subject of this groundbreaking procedure.

The spinal cord of the donor body would be fused with the spinal cord of the
recipient’s head (with chemicals such as polyethylene glycol or chitosan
employed to encourage spinal cord fusion) before the muscles and blood supply
were sutured. The recipient of the new body would be kept in a coma for 3 to
4 weeks afterward while the spinal cord was subject to electrical stimulation
via implanted electrodes in to boost the new nerve connections.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.rehabpub.com/2015/04/head-transplant-spinal-cord-fusion-key-procedure/

Link:
Russian Man Volunteers for Head Transplant (with video 1:20 Russian with
  English subtitles) 
http://now.snopes.com/2015/04/13/head-transplant/