2017-03-23

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BrainCraft

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Why do you get a brain freeze? Sometimes, after ice-cream or a cold drink, it can feel like your skull is squeezing in our your brain – it can even be pretty painful. The cold temperatures are picked up by pain receptors near your palate, so while a brain freeze feels like a headache, it's actually just referred pain from your mouth. Keep watching for a few ways to get rid of a brain freeze... as much as I love ice-cream, it's not quite worth the pain.

BrainCraft was created by Vanessa Hill (@nessyhill) and is brought to you by PBS Digital Studios. Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do.

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Hosted, Animated and Produced by Vanessa Hill 🍦

Written by Teagan Wall https://twitter.com/TeagWall

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Clips in this video 📼

Dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1-kZvNG8c

Baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaIfcys328I

Cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbC12XZgvPs

References 🗂

Neuroscientists explain how the sensation of brain freeze works: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522095335.htm

Society for Neuroscience: http://blog.brainfacts.org/2014/07/brain-freeze/#.WNP96RIrI2J

Ice-cream headaches and other headaches: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Torsten_Kraya/publication/299593439_Ice_cream_headache_in_students_and_family_history_of_headache_a_cross-sectional_epidemiological_study/links/57152ab808ae0f1a39b19f32.pdf