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2:46 pm
Tue July 3, 2012

When ice cream attacks: The mystery of brain freeze

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NPR interns (from left) Angela Wong and Kevin Uhrmacher participate in an experiment to induce brain freeze.
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Joe Palca explains how to induce a brain freeze.
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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 1:12 pm

If it hasn't happened to you, count yourself as lucky. For many people, eating ice cream or drinking an icy drink too fast can produce a really painful headache. It usually hits in the front of the brain, behind the forehead.

The technical name for this phenomenon is cold-stimulus headache, but people also refer to it as "ice cream headache" or "brain freeze."

The good news is that brain freeze is easy to prevent — just eat more slowly. The other bit of good news is these headaches don't last very long — a minute at the outside.

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Autism Research
3:57 pm
Fri February 17, 2012

Brain differences found in infants who develop autism

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A composite image of white matter pathways in the brains of infants at risk for autism.
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New research shows that differences in the brain development of autistic children are already visible in infants as young as 6 months old.

Researchers at four study sites nationwide used a type of MRI scan to look at brain development in the younger siblings of autistic children, who are known to be at higher risk for autism themselves.

Ninety-two children were scanned at 6, 12, and 24 months of age, while the children were sleeping.

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