Condition makes man’s scalp look like surface of brain (Photo: New England Journal of Medicine, copyright 2012) The strange folds and furrows covering a Brazilian man’s entire scalp was neither a funky new look nor a hipster trend. Rather the 21-year-old’s bizarre looking scalp with its deep skin folds in a pattern said to resemble the surface of the brain is a sign of a rare medical condition known as cutis verticis gyrata. Read the complete story.
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Condition makes man’s scalp look like surface of brain

(Photo: New England Journal of Medicine, copyright 2012)

The strange folds and furrows covering a Brazilian man’s entire scalp was neither a funky new look nor a hipster trend. Rather the 21-year-old’s bizarre looking scalp with its deep skin folds in a pattern said to resemble the surface of the brain is a sign of a rare medical condition known as cutis verticis gyrata.

Source: bodyodd.nbcnews.com

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    He should probably let his hair grow out… But I know plenty of dudes with wrinkled scalps.
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