Nothing’s quite as refreshing as a slushie or ice cream cone on a hot, humid day. But these frozen treats can sometimes trigger "brain freeze" — a sharp headache and intense mouth pain. We wanted to ...

Turns out, it really is about your brain freezing — here's the biology behind this "alarm" signal.

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 ...

Scientifically known as sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, brain freeze is caused by a rapid change in blood flow to the brain's vessels when exposed to cold substances. Amaal Starling, MD, a ...

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 ...

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 of us.

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 ...