NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (UPI) --Soccer players who hit the ball with their head may suffer a measurable decline in brain function, according to new research to be presented this week at the annual ...

The heading of a soccer ball—an intrinsic and routine feature of play in the world's most popular field sport—causes long-term damage to areas of the brain associated with learning ...

Heading a soccer ball repeatedly could be bad for the brain, according to a growing body of research about the potential long-term impacts on brains and minds from frequent collisions between ...

Researchers from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) analyzed the brain MRIs of 352 amateur soccer players ... Players more likely to head the ball showed abnormalities in the ...

Soccer players who headed the ball at high levels showed abnormality of the brain's white matter adjacent to sulci, which are deep grooves in the brain's surface. Abnormalities in this region of ...

That’s the latest warning from doctors who recently found that heading, a common technique soccer players use to pass and control the direction of the ball with their heads, causes more brain ...

ivan – stock.adobe.com The study found that soccer players who headed the ball at higher levels exhibited abnormality of the brain’s white matter —- a region of the brain where aberrations ...

A new study has found that heading a soccer ball can cause long-term damage to the brain regions associated with learning. Ex-CIA director talks Signal chat breach, sets record straight on Trump ...

Using the head to pass, shoot or clear a ball is routine in soccer and does not typically lead to concussions. However, a new study from the University of B.C. reveals that even mild heading has some ...

"Heading a soccer ball is not an impact of a magnitude that will lacerate nerve fibres in the brain," said Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research ...

At the hospital he was diagnosed with a ruptured arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a tangle of blood vessels that connects arteries and veins in the brain ... head by a soccer ball could have ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (UPI) --Soccer players who hit the ball with their head may suffer a measurable decline in brain function, according to new research to be presented this week at the annual meeting ...