Nicholas R. Metrus, MD, is a neurologist and neuro-oncologist with Atlantic Health System. He has completed research on complications of cancer and primary brain tumors like hypermutator gliomas ...

Nothing ruins the first soft-serve of summer like a lightning bolt of pain shot through your frontal lobe: brain freeze! You probably fought the headaches more as an over-excited, slushy scarfing ...

Searing pain behind the bridge of your nose. What causes brain freeze, this miserable spoiler of frozen desserts? The answer is simple: survival instinct. When humans eat something very cold ...

Brain freeze is a splitting headache that happens when you eat or drink something cold too fast. When you consume a cold food or beverage, you cool down the blood flowing to your brain.

Brain freeze is a pain for humans. Gulping a 7-Eleven cherry Slurpee or spooning Moose Tracks ice cream too fast can result in a scrunched-up face of temporary agony that’s fun to watch ...

What Is a Brain Freeze? On a hot day, nothing hits the spot like a slushy frozen drink or an ice cream cone. But if you gulp down that frosty treat too quickly, you could be hit with the dreaded ...

Better known as brain freeze, this brief, intense headache typically follows the consumption of an extremely cold food or beverage — often ingested far too quickly. A supposed brain freeze ...

Some call it brain freeze. Others call it an ice cream headache. You might hear a doctor call it a cold stimulus headache or refer to it by its scientific name, sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG ...

The pain of brain freeze can begin within seconds of being exposed to cold temperatures, and the intensity of the pain peaks very quickly, often within seconds, said Dr. Stephanie Goldberg ...