Comments on: Brain freeze and ‘ice cream headaches’ http://mindhacks.com/2005/05/29/brain-freeze-and-ice-cream-headaches/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 17:03:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Two Blue Einsteins http://mindhacks.com/2005/05/29/brain-freeze-and-ice-cream-headaches/#comment-8363 Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:37:50 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/05/29/brain-freeze-and-ice-cream-headaches/#comment-8363 Brain Freeze

A guy asks people at 7-Eleven to give themselves an ice cream headache by chugging their slurpee while he films it.

]]> By: Max Kaehn http://mindhacks.com/2005/05/29/brain-freeze-and-ice-cream-headaches/#comment-8361 Tue, 31 May 2005 19:25:48 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/05/29/brain-freeze-and-ice-cream-headaches/#comment-8361 Before my wife had a fibrous dysplasia of bone removed from her clivus– it was pressing on the brain and causing nasty headaches, among other problems– she was able to get relief from the headaches by drinking frozen drinks fast enough to induce brain freeze. A neurology resident said that this made sense; if I recall the explanation correctly, it was overloading the nerves enough that they stopped transmitting pain signals and gave her a brief respite. Our blender saw a lot of use around that time.

]]> By: Boing Boing http://mindhacks.com/2005/05/29/brain-freeze-and-ice-cream-headaches/#comment-8362 Mon, 30 May 2005 02:25:32 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/05/29/brain-freeze-and-ice-cream-headaches/#comment-8362 Brainfreeze video

One time while driving I drank an iced coffee concoction too quickly and experienced the worst brainfreeze of my life. My wife was scared that I was going to crash into someone. I, on the other hand, was afraid I was going to die. Thinking about it now…

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