No pain in the Brain

Although the brain is responsible for the experience of pain,it does not feel pain itself because it contains no pain receptors.This fact becomes very useful during brain surgery,because it allows surgeons to operate while the patient is concious.




Fun Fact

• The Brain is higly compact.if you smoothed out all the wrinkles in the cortex,the brain would cover an area of about 21/2 square feet (2300 sqcm).