Earlier this month, Scientific American blogger Katherine Harmon recapped a study lead by the Department of Veterans Affairs New Jersey Health Care System suggesting new treatments for migraines and traumatic brain injuries. According to Harmon, findings from the new study, presented April 22 at the Experimental Biology 2012 annual meeting in San Diego, were not easy to obtain and required 17 courageous volunteers to submit themselves to brain freeze. Researchers then were able to pinpoint changes in brain activity at those precise moments, comparing those signals with measurements taken under control conditions when subject sipped on room temperature water. Check out Katherine’s full post on the Scientific American website.
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