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 ...

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.

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 ...

Picture this: It’s a hot summer day. You scoop a generous bowlful of ice cream, then swallow that first spoonful and, out of nowhere—bam! Searing pain behind the bridge of your nose. What causes brain ...

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 ...

The rising pressure on scientists under the Trump administration is upending the U.S. reputation as a beacon of scientific inquiry. President Donald Trump’s deep cuts in federal research funding and ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell communications in living brain tissue from mice and humans. Findings from the new ...

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 ...