Mechanical stimulation of the pain sensitive structures of the brain can cause headache. All of the following are the pain sensitive structures of brain, EXCEPT:
Correct Answer: Choroid plexus
Description: Pain sensitive structures of the brain are,Middle meningeal aeryDural sinusesFalx cerebriProximal segments of the large pial aeriesVentricular ependyma, choroid plexus, pial veins, and much of the brain parenchyma are insensitive to the pain. Ref: Merritt's Neurology By Lewis P. Rowland, Timothy Asbury Pedley, Hiram Houston Merritt, 2010, Page 710.
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