Hand, not head, for that reason!   (also, hitting people in the head tends to make them unconscious and then they can't answer. Hitting them in the hand is very painful but leaves them able to talk.)

Especially if you're not worried about torture-- use encryption! it also resists seizure in just the same way-- but: it works like a salted password hash stored privately. O(N*M) work to try N passwords for M people, and to even start you must steal a copy of the private data which you have hopefully not posted in a public database.  If you want to generate it securely and _also_ attempt to memorize it, sure knock yourself out, an extra backup doesn't hurt.