what color is the brain?

Answer 1

pink

Answer 2

pink from the numerous blood vessels through it. Some areas with a lot of myelin are more whiteish.
If you have a grey brain you are dead and maybe somebody dunked your brain in formalin or any other fixative. Not a desirable stage to be in. Sorry for all those people with grey brains here.
As the anatomists got to see somebody elses brain mainly fixed in formalin the term grey and white matter (to distinuish cell and fiber parts) comes from there. It doesn't have much to do with how the brain looks alive.

Answer 3

The brain has no color unless it is perceived. Our understanding of color is what the brain reports and interprets through observation. One could say the brain is black because it is in darkness inside the skull but that too would be inaccurate. Even blackness must be perceived to be judged as such. The answer is that the brain has no color until perceived and then only your brain tells you through the senses of sight what color it is.

Answer 4

If it is still in the skull it is probably redish white. Not pink. It is red with white splotches. Kind of hard to explain.

If it is in a canister of formaldehyde, it is white.

I've seen both. I took a Human Anatomy and Physiology course at my junior college. The textbook had photos of brain surgery, and in a lab I saw an actual human brain in formaldehyde.

Answer 5

Greyish Pink

Answer 6

Pink

Answer 7

Actually, it's gray-ish. There are still blood vessels and capillaries that give it a reddish tint in areas (although that tint is somewhat faint).

Answer 8

Grey.

Answer 9

Gray.

The brain is sometimes called "gray matter."

Answer 10

Pink and spongy, grey once it's exposed to air.