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What Causes Brain Freeze?

You may know brain freeze by one of its other names: an ice cream headache, a cold-stimulus headache, or sphenopalatine ...
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 ...
There's nothing more satisfying on a hot day than chugging a delicious frozen drink or slushy. Though occasionally those frozen treats come with a brief moment of pain that feels like — well, brain ...
In healthy brains, synaptic vesicles, or message-carrying bubbles within brain cells, help transfer information from cell to cell in a process key to information processing, learning and forming ...
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 ...