What causes brain freeze, this miserable spoiler of frozen desserts? The answer is simple: survival instinct. When humans eat ...

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 ...

Brain freeze can be caused due to sudden cooling of the mouth, sensitive pain receptors, trigeminal nerve reaction, and more.

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

Summertime means water ice, popsicles – and ice-cream headaches. Also popularly known as brain freeze, and by the more clinical phrase cold-stimulus headache, the phenomenon is familiar to many ...

You may know brain freeze by one of its other names: an ice cream headache, a cold-stimulus headache, or sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, but no matter what you call it, it hurts like hell.