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How to tell if your head is about to blow up [Week
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| HOW TO TELL IF YOUR HEAD IS ABOUT TO BLOW UP |
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From the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, May 24, 1994
MOSCOW -- 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 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.
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Although HCE is very rare, it can kill. Dr. Martinenko says knowing
you have the condition can greatly improve your odds of surviving it.
A "yes" answer to any three of the following seven questions could
mean that you have HCE:
1. Does your head sometimes ache when you think too hard? (Head
pain can indicate overloaded brain circuits.)
2. Do you ever hear a faint ringing or humming sound in your
ears? (It could be the sound of electricity in the skull
cavity.)
3. Do you sometimes find yourself unable to get a thought out of
your head? (This is a possible sign of too much electrical
activity in the cerebral cortex.)
4. Do you spend more than five hours a day reading, balancing
your checkbook, or other thoughtful activity? (A common
symptom of HCE is a tendency to over-use the brain.)
5. When you get angry or frustrated do you feel pressure in your
temples? (Friends of people who died of HCE say the victims
often complained of head pressure in times of strong
emotion.)
6. Do you ever overeat on ice cream, doughnuts and other sweets?
(A craving for sugar is typical of people with too much
electrical pressure in the cranium.)
7. Do you tend to analyze yourself too much? (HCE sufferers are
often introspective, "over-thinking" their lives.)
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