What goes on in your nervous system during a brain freeze?

Brain freeze, also known as an ice-cream headache or cold-stimulus headache has the very long scientific name of sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. It is a kind of short-term headache typically linked to the rapid consumption of ice-cream or very cold drinks. Image source:- Google images. read more

Brain freeze, also known as an ice-cream headache or cold-stimulus headache has the very long scientific name of sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. It is a kind of short-term headache typically linked to the rapid consumption of ice-cream or very cold drinks. read more

Brain freeze is practically a rite of summer. It happens when you eat ice cream or gulp something ice cold too quickly. The scientific term is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, but that's a mouthful. Brain freeze is your body's way of putting on the brakes, telling you to slow down and take it easy. read more

Unlike a brain freeze from eating ice cream or from drinking frosty drinks,"head freezes" persist even longer, and they can affect more parts of the head, face, and neck. It is not unusual to have trigeminal neuralgia, intense face pain, when cold air is the cause of the brain or head freeze. read more