Magazine028 Question 5

Distractors

Our hands are not highly sensitive to pain as we once thought.

Our hands are the least represented body part in the brain, but the most sensitive to pain.

Our hands have proportionately fewer sensory neurons than other parts of the body.

Key

Our hands contain some of the highest proportion of sensory neurons compared to other body parts.

Question

According to “Tending to Our Hands” by Heath and Nicole Reed, which of these is an accurate statement about our hands?