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A cold-stimulus headache, colloquially known as an ice-cream headache or brain freeze, is a form of brief pain or headache commonly associated with consumption (particularly quick consumption) of cold beverages or foods such as ice cream, popsicles, and snow cones.
So, why the heck do we. Brain freeze is so serious it has a scientific name: sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. You drink or eat something cold very fast and BOOM, your head feels like someone's ...
Technicians preparing a body for cryopreservation in 1985. Cryonics (from Greek: κρύος kryos, meaning "cold") is the low-temperature freezing (usually at −196 °C or −320.8 °F or 77.1 K) and storage of human remains in the hope that resurrection may be possible in the future.
The human brain is the central organ of the nervous system, and with the spinal cord, comprises the central nervous system. It consists of the cerebrum , the brainstem and the cerebellum . The brain controls most of the activities of the body , processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sensory nervous system .
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear, colorless body fluid found within the tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord of all vertebrates.. CSF is produced by specialized ependymal cells in the choroid plexus of the ventricles of the brain, and absorbed in the arachnoid granulations.
In humans with Parkinson's disease, surgical lesion of the zona incerta alleviates their parkinsonian motor symptoms. Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in those with Parkinson's disease has identified the zona incerta as a promising target area for effective therapy. [ 33 ]
The 'English' name locus coeruleus [43] is actually a Latin expression consisting of the noun, locus, "place" or "spot" [44] and the adjective coeruleus, "dark blue" [44] or "sky-blue". [ 45 ] [ 46 ] This was aptly translated into English as blue place in 1907 in the English translation [ 47 ] of the official Latin anatomic nomenclature of 1895 ...
The race was notoriously dangerous, with a total of 56 people (including spectators) dying over the course of the event’s 30-year history. What happened at the 1957 Mille Miglia?