Brain freeze' is a nearly universal experience -- almost everyone has felt the near-instantaneous headache brought on by a bite of ice cream or slurp of ice-cold soda on the upper palate.

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 ...

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 ...

Though Omar replaced his soda fountains, the idea of frozen sodas ... is enough to give anyone a brain freeze. Editor's note, July 12, 2017: This story has been updated to include an earlier ...

You may know brain freeze by one of its other names: an ice cream headache, a cold-stimulus headache, or sphenopalatine ...

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 ...

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.

Technically, your actual brain can’t feel pain. It’s the nerve receptors called meninges that cause you to feel the deep freeze at the front of your head. 98% of brain freezes are finished ...

Scientifically known as sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, brain freeze is caused by a rapid change in blood flow to the ...

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 ...

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 ...