Why does your dreamy iced mocaccino give you a nightmare ice pick headache? Brain freeze is real, and here's how frosty ...

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 ...

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 ...

But these frozen treats can sometimes trigger "brain freeze" — a sharp headache and intense mouth pain. We wanted to know what causes brain freeze, so we connected with doctors to find out.

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

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, or "ice cream headache," is a sudden, stabbing pain in the head caused by eating or drinking something cold. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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.