Key Takeaways Functional freeze is when someone goes into autopilot as a response to chronic stress and trauma. Unlike other trauma responses, someone in functional freeze can appear completely normal ...

Rick Perry's brain froze on national TV. He was trying to remember the third federal department he would cut and he completely failed. He knew the answer, struggled mightily to remember it, but ...

What Is Brain Freeze When Eating Ice Cream and How to Avoid It? Brain freeze, also called ice cream headache or by its scientific name, sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, is a short-lived but intense ...

In medical school I was taught to look out for Seasonal Affective Disorder, SAD, during the cold dark months. I expected my patients’ depression to worsen and for the winter blues to set in. I have ...

Despite its name, your brain does not really freeze during a brain freeze. Here's what's really happening to your brain when you get that sharp, searing pain. Read more.