Is ice cream brain freeze a real phenomenon?

Ah, the brain freeze — the signature pain of summer experienced by anyone who has eaten an ice cream cone with too much enthusiasm or slurped down a slushie a little too quickly. ... "But it's a very similar phenomenon to the referred pain that is experienced by people who have heart attacks," Rau says. read more

If you get a headache after eating ice cream or drinking a cold beverage – you’ve experienced “brain freeze,” a very real phenomenon, according to doctors. Brain freeze starts at the roof of your mouth, said Dr. Paul Bryson, who treats patients at the Cleveland Clinic’s Head and Neck Institute. read more

A cold-stimulus headache, also known as brain freeze, ice-cream headache, trigeminal headache or its given scientific name sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (meaning"pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion"), is a form of brief pain or headache commonly associated with consumption (particularly quick consumption) of cold beverages or foods such as ice cream and ice pops. read more