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 This man has cutis verticis gyrata, a rare condition characterized by folds in the scalp.
October 19th, 2012
12:37 PM ET
Rare condition makes scalp look like brainThis is not a photo of a brain bulging out of someone's head. Doctors reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that they diagnosed a case of a rare condition called cutis verticus gyrata, which causes the folds in the scalp to form - specifically, "ridges and furrows resembling the brain's surface," write Dr. Karen Regina Rosso Schons and Andre Avelino Costa Beber of Hospital Universitario de Santa Maria in Brazil. These scalp changes started showing up two years before doctors saw the 21-year-old patient. He didn't display symptoms of neurological or psychiatric conditions, but he did have intellectual or learning impairment. Doctors did not attempt an intervention because "the patient had no associated disorders and the condition did not bother him cosmetically." After a year, the patient's presentation of his condition was the same, according to the report. soundoff (1,001 Responses)1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next »Leave a Reply to Internet Marketing Pictures
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Oh yuck...dude grow some hair..
Grow some empathy for humanity!
Your reply shows an extreme lack of ignorance and empathy. Cutis verticis gyrata can cause baldness, with hair remaining within the folds, and if you had taken a moment to exam the picture beyond your disgust you may have noticed that it appears this man is suffering from that. "Grow some hair" may be out of his hands.
Scott
"lack of ignorance"
If my head looked like that, I'd shave it every day... that's cool as hell.
@DingGate – Not sure why you repeated what I wrote? In case of confusion, my first reply was directed at Norm.
Oh, haha, now I realize what I wrote. I meant your post shows an extreme amount of ignorance and lack of empathy. Bah, I need to get more sleep.
"...extreme lack of ignorance..." = "abundance of intelligence"???
Your polemic was aimed in the right direction but seems to have missed the target with that one phrase.
Scott: @DingGate repeated what you wrote because what you wrote was the opposite of what you meant. "Lack of ignorance" means that one is NOT ignorant. It helps to proofread before you click "Post."
I am so surprised you would write that – must be so hard for this young guy to have that condition!
How would you shave that? Man! You'd have knicks and cuts all over the place...little tiny wads of tp hanging off there...whew! You would have to go with Nair or something like that I bet.
Norm that's the same thing I thought when I saw the picture. It looks nasty and he needs to grow some hair. I've seen other people that have scalps that look like this. eeewwww
Norm, that comment was quite inappropriate.
This is very much a "non-article"
The only reasonable text is "hey look at this picture of this guy's weird head", but the author made a valiant attempt to tell us all about how it's not actually a brain and the doctors didn't do anything because the patient doesn't have a problem.
Agree, they just found this disturbing picture and decided to make it an article, silly!
Hi brandon, I appreciate the feedback. Just so you know, as the article states, this photo was published in the New England Journal of Medicine with a brief description. We wanted to pass along information about this rare condition to CNN.com readers.
Thanks for reading!
Elizabeth Landau, CNN
Hi Elizabeth – the article reads, "after a year, the patient was the same..." Does that mean that he was not born with that shape and that after a year the condition went away and he looked normal? or does that mean that the condition was observed for a year and during that time it did not progress?
Hi Ricky, thanks for your question - it appears that the patient's condition did not change after a year, i.e. his scalp still looked this way. I updated the article with that as well.
Thanks!
Elizabeth Landau, CNN
Mr. brandon is exactly right. Slow news day I guess. This item has an intriguing picture, so they ran with it... gotta fill the space. You wouldn't think that there's a presidential election in just a few weeks or that the Middle East is blowing up.
Hey Orchuck, we have enough news about upcoming election and it's kind of making us sick already. About so called Middle Hole or Middle East we got sick long long time ago!
A phrenologist's nightmare, or dream?
Phrenologist wet dream...
Hmm, I can get use to that....it's like a human Shar Pei.
Yes, I was thinking about the Chinese Shar-Pei when I looked at that scalp.
The buzz cut doesn't work for everyone!!!
I agree. Grow some hair. Problem solved.
Depends on how you look at it. Some people might think it's cool looking.
I am amazed at how his hair was cut for that pic without damaging his scalp...
You cant damage the scalp, i forcfully dig into my scalp with the clippers, its fine, its not how you would think.
Hey look its Shane Battier!
Ha!
haha . i was thinking the same thing. looks kinda scrotty. 🙂
Google Shane battier diseas.
Add the bagel look on the forehead. Life is short. When given lumps, make wavy gravy.
Cool
Zombies love this guy.
brains!!!!!
Big deal ... Most people with really short hair have weird looking heads.
Grow some hair and hope you never go bald.
Where can I find information about this condition. My son has what appears to be this condition, but Dr's have not diagnosed it as they are dumbfounded as to what it could be.
http://www.google.com
Dear CNN and Ms. Landau: I must scold you for a poorly presented article. I am tempted to side with Brandon's remarks – "This is very much a "non-article". The classification of cutis verticus gyrata as a disease is misleading, in that no impairment to the organs has been found. It would be more appropriate to call CVG a condition, and at best maybe an abnormality.
I know an individual with this condition who is a college graduate and an engineer. The article states that the"...21-year-old patient with this condition didn't display symptoms of neurological or psychiatric conditions, but he did have intellectual or learning impairment." This too is misleading, because you take only one individual example and suggest that the individual's intellectual or learning impairment is due to his condition of CVG. You offer no further example, sample, study or statistics.
Please retract and rewrite.
Dear batjones,
I very much appreciate your feedback. I have changed the word "disease" to "condition" because upon reflection that is more appropriate and I thank you for that. This short description is merely of one patient's experience and not necessarily representative of all cases; I did not mean to suggest that intellectual impairment was related to the condition necessarily, it was just noted by the doctors.
Thanks for reading.
Elizabeth Landau, CNN
Hmmmm....isn't skin the body's largest organ? Seems a bit impaired to me.
Elizabeth, you missed one...still called a disease under the picture.
"This man has cutis verticis gyrata, a rare disease characterized by folds in the scalp."
The caption has been updated as well. Thank you for being a careful reader!
Ashley Hayes, CNN
Skin is the largest organ, not internal organ, but largest organ.
I think I see a couple of cat faces
Great head if you're an entertainer. Could also play a villan.
I think Shane Battier used to have this – http://bit.ly/Ra7RoW
I was just going to ask the collective if Shane Battier has/had this. He doesn't have any development issues that I know of though, he's known for being a cerebral guy.
The story is a picture. Appealing to the non-reader now CNN. Cripes.
It's something we don't discuss with outsiders
Looks like he would be an ultra supergenius.
This has been something I have seen in the African-American community since I was a kid and it is just getting attention. WOW!
Yeah, I've seen plenty of cases that look similar, at least from a cosmetic standpoint. The article makes it sounds as if this is an incredibly rare case.
I agree; you see this condition commonly in the military, in basic and technical training environments where everyone has a shaved head. The suggestion that it is rare I think has more to do with it being covered by hair especially among those who have the condition. There also was an implication that the condition is associated with mental impairment which I think is unsupported.
I worked with a man who has this condition. It's not always so mild. It becomes really bad in conjunction with acne. The poor guy had to have surgery. This condition causes hair to grow under the skin, resulting in infection and eventual patchy hairloss.
Pretty cool workspace for a tattoo artist. I'd get something really cool done on my dome if it looked like that.
Best comment.
Am I wrong to assume that if would just grow out his hair, this would not be an issue?
This is an extreme case of something I see almost every day. The interesting thing is, a very funny coworker of mine came into the lunch room today and saw another coworker who has been absent a lot lately "Its good to see your wrinkled head in here again". The guy she was referring to has this same condition. And I always take note of coincidences. So hearing that today and seeing this article makes me go hmmm.
Reminds me a song I used to know. "Things that make Don go hmmm, things that make him go hmm, ya things that make him hmmmm.."
That's Shane Battier's head
That's gross!!!! 🙁
Get a life. dude... you have people putting tattoo on their bold head.
Who the #UCK shaved his hair?
GET YOU MONEY BACK FROM BARBAR SHOP!
I would get that scalp tatted up and flaunt it to the world.
I know that guy! It's the Toxic Avenger!
Looks more like a scrotum than a brain.
looks a little like Shane Battier
BRAINS!!
I've seen worse.
Poor tired Scott. I got your point that people are ignorant and show a total lack of empathy. As it's been mentioned several times now, people with this condition probably also suffer from baldness so this guy can't just grow hair to make other people not grossed out when they look at him. How about you all just don't look if it bothers you so much!!
The dermal cells are behaving like dura matter cells. A miscommunication to say the least.
I saw this on reddit first. Clearly, CNN employees spend a lot of time on the site & if they don't find anything they can report, they do interviews with people like Violentacrez on Anderson Cooper 360.
Thanks for your comment. I'm sure this may have appeared elsewhere but this was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, as we say in the article.
Ashley Hayes, CNN
Sick. Scalp the man.
But, but, I mean, what? This is only part of the article. Does the scalp actually look like that man's brain surface? Like the DNA is mixed up? Or is this just a skin condition that happens to look like brain folds? Does it have any other symptoms? Does it spread to the face or stay within the hairline?
I have this and shave my head. I get a lot of interesting looks. But then again only certain people can pull a bald head.
I have seen countless men with this condition. Most are African-American. Why is this news?
That makes sense because like african americans this guy too has intellectual and learning impairments.
I have seen similar looking fruits in Chinese fruit market.
God's cruel joke. A guy with intellectual and learning impairments and it looks like his brain is huge and bulging from his skull. Of course the condition does not bother him cosmetically, he's a mental chimp.
Hey, it's Shar Pei Man!
Insensitive, I know, but lighten up!)
cute
I have seen this on fat men.
I new a guy "Basic" that had this if freaking cool. Like the best Holloween prop ever
Just goes to show how truly fortunate we are. All it takes is one tiny blip in our DNA and we could easily have a disease like this.
Oh, please... "disease"?! I have this and I look awesome. People assume I'm paying some hair stylist $50 to shave wavy lines into my head so I'll look cool. It's a purely cosmetic condition and I wouldn't change it if I could. (In fact I'm quite worried that my wrinkles may have faded a little with age, despite what Wikipedia says about there being no "cure".)
I think this looks cool. If my head looked like this, I wouldn't mind going bald so much. I bet chicks would love running their hands across my verticus gyrata.
First of all, don't shave your head if you have this (should be obvious).
Secondly, I've seen plenty of people with "shar pei" head. It's not that rare.
You are fcking stup!d if you think this looks cool. It looks like someone just fck'd up your hair. Get over yourself, your condition makes you look horrible. Accept it.
I agree with most commentators. don't buzz cut your hair and you'll be fine.
"... but he did have intellectual or learning impairment."
And you folks think that's cool?
Puny humans, you are all wrong! This is Hulk's enemy the Leader!!!
LOL good one!!! It'll go over the head of most people but as a comic reader I get it.