Head explosion! - Hyper-Cerebral Electrosis!

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Head complete explosion!!!!!!

Hi guys!
I am a chemist and I found an interesting story in "exeter chess club" about Hyper-Cerebral Electrosis. Have you ever heard about similar cases??? Is this story true???? Than it is scary ((. What is the exact reason for the explosion????
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"Doctors are blaming a rare electrical imbalance in the brain for the bizarre death of a chess player whose head literally exploded in the middle of a championship game!

No one else was hurt in the fatal explosion but four players and three officials at the Moscow Candidate Masters' Chess Championships were sprayed with blood and brain matter when Nikolai Titov's head suddenly blew apart. Experts say he suffered from a condition called Hyper-Cerebral Electrosis or HCE.

He was deep in concentration with his eyes focused on the board," says Titov's opponent, Vladimir Dobrynin. "All of a sudden his hands flew to his temples and he screamed in pain. Everyone looked up from their games, startled by the noise. Then, as if someone had put a bomb in his cranium, his head popped like a firecracker."

Incredibly, Titiov's is not the first case in which a person's head has spontaneously exploded. Five people are known to have died of HCE in spontaneously exploded. Five people are known to have died of HCE in the last 25 years. The most recent death occurred just three years ago in 1991, when European psychic Barbara Nicole's skull burst. Miss Nicole's story was reported by newspapers worldwide, including WWN. "HCE is an extremely rare physical imbalance," said Dr. Anatoly Martinenko, famed neurologist and expert on the human brain who did the autopsy on the brilliant chess expert. "It is a condition in which the circuits of the brain become overloaded by the body's own electricity. The explosions happen during periods of intense mental activity when lots of current is surging through the brain. Victims are highly intelligent people with great powers of concentration. Both Miss Nicole and Mr. Titov were intense people who tended to keep those cerebral circuits overloaded. In a way it could be said they were literally too smart for their own good."

Although Dr. Martinenko says there are probably many undiagnosed cases, he hastens to add that very few people will die from HCE. "Most people who have it will never know. At this point, medical science still doesn't know much about HCE. And since fatalities are so rare it will probably be years before research money becomes available."

In the meantime, the doctor urges people to take it easy and not think too hard for long periods of time. "Take frequent relaxation breaks when you're doing things that take lots of mental focus," he recommends.
 
No. Although there are some very strange phenomena in medical science, exploding heads is not one of them.

I don't recommend posting things like this. You're just asking to get flamed by random angry people.
 
The newspaper quoted in the article is WWN, which I believe stands for Weekly World News, that tabloid in the check out counter that shows Saddam and Osama together in bed this week. I really wasn't sure who read that thing, but now you've helped me learn a little bit more about their market.
 
Sigh... These ER docs wouldn't recognize a life threatening illness if it hit them over the head. Please read my posts in the "neurology" forum about this deadly medical condition folks. And please stop spreading around false medical information, patients can be mislead by what we post here, so I don't think that it would be wise to post up false information.
 
"Dr. Anatoly Martinenko" is so famed, in fact, that I only found his name in a Google search in connection with this very same Weekly World News story. It's bogus. File it next to lycanthropy and vampirism.

And anyway, everyone knows a human head will only explode secondary to the hatching of hundreds of thousands of baby spiders, grown in the skull cavity after the eggs are laid in the ear canal.
 
I actually saw a case of this once.

Except it was in a gang member and not a chess club.

And the "explosion" was secondary to a high velocity missle.

Specifically a 45 cal bullet at close range.

The rest of it is pretty right on though.
 
I too saw a case of this once.

Except it was a burned out paramedic and a stick of dynamite in the mouth. Note said he'd seen too many people who "couldn't get it right..." Effective, messy but effective...

Some days I remeber why I left the streets...

🙁

- H
 
Originally posted by Desperado
The newspaper quoted in the article is WWN, which I believe stands for Weekly World News, that tabloid in the check out counter that shows Saddam and Osama together in bed this week. I really wasn't sure who read that thing, but now you've helped me learn a little bit more about their market.

I think Premedia quotes this source often in the Everyone forum.
 
Originally posted by Idiopathic
I think Premedia quotes this source often in the Everyone forum.

you must really hate that guy to post flames about him in completely different forums. pretty low, even for the internet :laugh:
 
If this were true I would certianly be headless after taking Step II
 
Originally posted by Starcraft
you must really hate that guy to post flames about him in completely different forums. pretty low, even for the internet :laugh:

Premedia deserves flames not just in different forums on SDN, but in completely different web sites altogether and, possibly, in big fiery letters in the sky.
 
If it actually exists, I never want to see it. And I DO NOT want to be sitting next to this unfortunate person when it happens to him.

Neurosurgery is scary enough when the patients brains are inside his skull. 😉
 
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