Did you know human overies contain neurons? I suppose memories are not stored there :-) but still the fact is rather surprising.
Did you know human overies contain neurons? I suppose memories are not stored there :-) but still the fact is rather surprising.
That's interesting, but bear in mind that sensory neurons are basically just transducers that sense something and convert it into a neural output. It makes sense that a woman's brain would find it useful to know when she is ovulating.
I believe there are tastebuds in your colon too.
AFAIK the gut in large terrestrial vertebrates has its own nervous system that rivals the complexity of the entire system in simpler creatures.
The idea that all stateful/regulatory stuff is entirely localised to the brain is a bit too simple to be true. Most of it, sure, but that last few percent can be doing all sorts of clinically important stuff. Nature is an incredibly brilliant engineer, but not always a tidy one.
The heart has neurons in it too.