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The brain itself cannot feel pain because the brain does not have pain receptors. Then how do you feel the pain when someone hits you on your head?

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We feel pain due to special receptors called nociceptors that are activated in response to unpleasant stimuli. The brain itself doesn’t have these receptors but the structures surrounding the brain have nociceptors.

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