Has this ever happened to you? You’re eating a delicious ice cream cone or frozen lemonade, so cold and sweet and suddenly, bam, brain freeze! What happened? A brain freeze is a short, intense pain ...
What Is Brain Freeze When Eating Ice Cream and How to Avoid It? Brain freeze, also called ice cream headache or by its scientific name, sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, is a short-lived but intense ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Have you ever been enjoying an ice-cold drink on a hot summer day when your brain says: “That’s a bad idea, this is too cold”? If so, you’re not alone. The medical term for this ...
Fear begins deep in the brain. The amygdala, buried within the temporal lobe, acts as an alarm system, detecting threats and ...
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What Causes Brain Freeze?

You may know brain freeze by one of its other names: an ice cream headache, a cold-stimulus headache, or sphenopalatine ...
Rick Perry's brain froze on national TV. He was trying to remember the third federal department he would cut and he completely failed. He knew the answer, struggled mightily to remember it, but ...