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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Multiple concussions over time can cause brain damage. It's still a matter of debate, though, whether the ordinary knocks involved in "heading" the soccer ball raise the risk of brain injury. Of the ...

"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 ...