Scientists have explained why eating ice cream too quickly can cause a painful headache -- commonly known as brain freeze。
Researchers at the National University of Ireland in Galway and Harvard Medical School have found that the pain was brought on by a rapid increase in blood flow through a major blood vessel in the brain, the anterior cerebral artery, the Daily Telegraph reported。
They hope to use the discovery to develop new treatments for migraine。
科學(xué)家日前解釋了為何食用冰淇淋速度過快會導(dǎo)致被稱為“腦結(jié)冰”的嚴(yán)重頭痛。
據(jù)英國《每日電訊報(bào)》報(bào)道,愛爾蘭國立大學(xué)戈?duì)栱f分校和哈佛醫(yī)學(xué)院的研究人員共同發(fā)現(xiàn),這種疼痛是由于腦部主要血管,即大腦前動脈中的血流量突然增加造成。
他們希望借助這項(xiàng)發(fā)現(xiàn)找出治療偏頭痛的方法。