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.

You’ve probably experienced that unpleasant feeling commonly referred to as brain freeze, ice cream brain, or an ice cream headache. This sensation, which can cause a short-term headache lasting from ...

Hot summer days tend to bring with them a spike in cases of sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. That mouthful is less dangerous than it sounds. It’s more commonly known -- and easier to pronounce -- as ...

That is, until it's too cold. Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the medical terminology for what we call a brain freeze. Here's the scoop on how the cold-induced headache happens. "The blood vessels ...

We’ve all been there. The ice cream or shake or ice coffee you’re enjoying is so tasty that you overdo it and pay a big price. We’re struck by sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia — although it’s common ...