A brain freeze, also known as ice-cream headache, cold-stimulus headache, trigeminal headache or its given scientific name sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (meaning "nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion"), is a form of brief pain or headache commonly associated with consumption (particularly quick consumption) of cold beverages or foods such as ice cream and ice pops. It is caused by having something cold touch the roof of the mouth (palate), and is believed to result from a nerve response causing rapid constriction and swelling of blood vessels or a "referring" of pain from the roof of the mouth to the head. The rate of intake for cold foods has been studied as a contributing factor.
The term ice-cream headache has been in use since at least 31 January 1937, contained in a journal entry by Rebecca Timbres published in the 1939 book We Didn't Ask Utopia: A Quaker Family in Soviet Russia. The first published use of the term brain freeze, as it pertains to cold-induced headaches, was on 27 May 1991.
Brain freeze is a common alternate name for ice-cream headache.
Brain freeze may also refer to:
The tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon is the failure to retrieve a word from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent. The phenomenon's name comes from the saying, "It's on the tip of my tongue." The tip of the tongue phenomenon reveals that lexical access occurs in stages.
People experiencing the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon can often recall one or more features of the target word, such as the first letter, its syllabic stress, and words similar in sound and/or meaning. Individuals report a feeling of being seized by the state, feeling something like mild anguish while searching for the word, and a sense of relief when the word is found. While many aspects of the tip-of-the-tongue state remain unclear, there are two major competing explanations for its occurrence, the direct-access view and the inferential view. The direct-access view posits that the state occurs when memory strength is not enough to recall an item, but is strong enough to trigger the state. The inferential view claims that TOTs aren't completely based on inaccessible, yet activated targets; rather they arise when the rememberer tries to piece together different clues about the word. Emotional-induced retrieval often causes more TOT experiences than an emotionally neutral retrieval, such as asking where a famous icon was assassinated rather than simply asking the capital city of a state. Emotional TOT experiences also have a longer retrieval time than non-emotional TOT experiences. The cause of this is unknown but possibilities include using a different retrieval strategy when having an emotional TOT experience rather than a non-emotional TOT experience, fluency at the time of retrieval, and strength of memory.
Thomas Ellis or Tom Ellis may refer to:
Tom Ellis (born September 22, 1932) is a Boston-based journalist, well-known throughout New England for his tenure as anchor for three of Boston's network-affiliated stations. His career in television news spans more than 40 years.
His career includes stints as a correspondent for WNBC-TV and as an anchor for WABC-TV – both in New York City, and for KONO-TV Channel 12 (now KSAT-TV) in San Antonio. His radio career has included anchor/reporter duties for KVET-AM in Austin, Texas, KWED-AM in Sequin, TX, and KONO-AM/FM in San Antonio.
Ellis may be the only individual in television history to anchor top-rated newscasts in 3 major markets: San Antonio, TX, Boston, MA, and New York. His newscasts in Boston all have drawn top ratings.
Ellis grew up in the Big Thicket area of Texas. He is a 1958 graduate of the University of Texas.
When he was 17 Ellis worked as a sideshow barker, earning $150 per week. Ellis' first job in television came in 1951, when aproducer from New York approached him to host a baseball pregame show for children sponsored by the Curtiss Candy Company. Ellis hosted the Curtis Knot Hole Gang club, a thirty-minute program before the Dallas Eagles and the Fort Worth Cats of the Texas League. He would interview local youth baseball players.
Tom Ellis was a senior partner in the architectural firm Lyons, Israel and Ellis. The work of Ellis and his partners is noteworthy for both the collection of buildings they designed and for their influence on the group of architects who worked for the partnership. When English Heritage listed one of their buildings in 2006 they described the Lyons, Israel and Ellis partnership as 'one of the most influential post-war practices specialising in education, public housing and healthcare'.
The list of architects who worked for Lyons, Israel and Ellis includes James Stirling, Richard MacCormac, Rick Mather, James Gowan, John Miller, Neave Brown, Eldred Evans, Alan Colquhoun, David Gray and many others. David Gray became a partner in the firm in 1970 and the firm's name was changed to Lyons Israel Ellis Gray.
Thomas Bickerstaff Harper Ellis was born in Lancaster in 1911. After attending Lancaster Technical School he was employed in 1929 as an assistant in the Lancaster office of the gardener and architect Thomas Hayton Mawson. During this period he also studied part-time at Lancaster School of Arts and Crafts where his academic work won him a Royal Exhibition (type of scholarship). With the help of this and a Lancashire County scholarship Ellis became a student at the Architectural Association in London (1934–35). A year later he moved to the Royal College of Art and obtained his final architectural qualification in 1938.
I try to talk, but my tongue turns numb
I walk, but begin to fall down
This feeling I have for you
Oh there's nothing that I could do
A plan runs round in my head
For us to at least be friends
I want to speak my mind
But I'm worried, would you mind
If angelic baby
If I may say
You're the most lovely…
No I can't say that!
One day comes as one day goes by
Still can't locate the nerve that makes a smile
I get worked up and swear next time
But when I see you, I change my mind
All day long, your thought bombards my brain
This daydreaming is costing me my grade
Why can't I just walk up to you
Like so many other guys do
And say…
Angelic baby
May I say
Your eyes are like the skies stars
No that sounds so lame!
If only
You felt the same
Well maybe someday
Maybe someday
For now I'll
Just sit here and dream
My whole life away
As I pull out my hair
Dreaming of you
Thinking of me
The thought was beautiful
The thought was fun
But now I realize the dream is gone
A cruel cruel scheme love pulled on me
Oh naïve heart
I let you lead
And now you're crushed and suffering
I should have know