# Ridges on top of head? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 20, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221 "2007-08-20T05:16:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/21 "2007-08-20T20:27:49Z")
That guy’s brain is trying to escape without him! ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/22 "2007-08-20T20:30:21Z")
**pool** , I have exactly what you’re talking about. I can’t go bald. It looks like my brain is coming through my scalp. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/23 "2007-08-20T22:00:45Z")
Could burns make scarring like that? I knew of a baby who stuck his head in the oven and got burned on the top of his head. Also, looks like he’s got some form of vitiglio. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/24 "2007-08-20T22:05:10Z")
I’m going to put on some [Slim Whitman music now](http://www.am.ub.es/~carrasco/bichos/marsattacks.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/25 "2007-08-20T23:09:29Z")
That’s…uh…different! Do you think it would help the Georgia Department of Corrections if we emailed and pointed out that his eye-colour is brown? I can understand them not knowing what his hair colour is but I could help settle the question of the eye-colour. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/26 "2007-08-21T13:15:11Z")
Bump\* Perhaps a Doper with medical knowledge can weigh in on this. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/27 "2007-08-21T13:28:16Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] Battier’s ridges aren’t THAT pronounced (you can sort of see them through his hair [here](http://www.thegbshow.com/images/interviews/shanebattierinterview.jpg). But maybe the crappy lighting in the prison picture is exaggerating them. Unless the prisoner has some scarring or something. [/QUOTE] I’ve seen ridges like that on an actor somewhere - not a completely obscure one. I want to say Forest Whitaker, but I don’t think it’s him - someone who looks a bit like him. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/28 "2007-08-21T13:57:39Z")
It looks like scarring to me. It could have been done purposely, like tongue splitting. Sorry, that’s all I have. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/29 "2007-08-21T14:11:38Z")
Aha! Cutis verticis gyrata -google it, but be warned, there are some weird photos there - including one young person that looks like they’re wearing a brain as a hat. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/30 "2007-08-21T14:16:28Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] I have grooves permanently gouged in my skull from wearing glasses since the third grade. [/QUOTE] You are the second person I’ve known to have this. The first being me. I worked with a guy like that. He has a stubbly hair cut. He looks like a Shar Pei. I affects more than the top of his head. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/31 "2007-08-21T14:19:41Z")
[QUOTE=pool] Bump\* [/quote] Bump, indeed. Yikes. Semi-apropos smiley: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/32 "2007-08-21T14:58:14Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] You are the second person I’ve known to have this. The first being me. I worked with a guy like that. He has a stubbly hair cut. He looks like a Shar Pei. I affects more than the top of his head. [/QUOTE] Third - there are still earpiece-ridges in my head even though I got Lasix seven years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/33 "2007-08-21T15:02:15Z")
Were you all wearing unusually tight glasses? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/34 "2007-08-21T15:05:29Z")
I’ve got ridges from glasses - they don’t have to be tight - just in place a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/35 "2007-08-21T15:25:36Z")
I guess it must just depend on your skull. I’ve worn glasses full time since the age of five without getting ridges. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/36 "2007-08-21T21:05:43Z")
I have ear piece impressions in the soft tissue on the sides of my head, been wearing glasses for 30 years now. It startles folks when I take my glasses off. I get the “doesn’t that hurt?” looks. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/37 "2007-08-21T21:15:39Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Aha! Cutis verticis gyrata -google it, but be warned, there are some weird photos there - including one young person that looks like they’re wearing a brain as a hat. [/QUOTE] From [eMedicine](http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic694.htm) [no pics, quite SFW]: > [@](#): > > Cutis verticis gyrata (CVG) is a descriptive term for a condition of the scalp manifesting as convoluted folds and furrows formed from thickened skin of the scalp resembling cerebriform pattern. …In 1984, Garden and Robinson improved the classification by proposing new terms: primary essential CVG for cases in which no other abnormality was found (rare) and primary nonessential, which can be associated with mental deficiency, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, schizophrenia, cranial abnormalities (microcephaly), deafness, ophthalmologic abnormalities (cataract, strabismus, blindness, retinitis pigmentosa), or a combination of these. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/38 "2007-08-21T21:37:59Z")
The ear piece seats at the skull ear junction. Run the ear pieces straight out to the rims. You compress the skin at the temple and get a crease. Somebody that has no wider point between the ear piece and rims won’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/39 "2007-08-21T22:39:33Z")
boyoboy. _How_ could he get close enough to a kid to molest? ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221/40 "2007-08-21T23:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] boyoboy. _How_ could he get close enough to a kid to molest? [/QUOTE] Tell him his a friendly alien like E.T.? “Cutis verticis gyrata”… Hm, eeeeenteresting. > [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Semi-apropos smiley: 😕 :: snorts beer out nose :: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridges-on-top-of-head/416221.md?page=3)