This article talks about a new study that researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York performed on 34 men and women who have played soccer since childhood. Each person filled out a detailed questionnaire to determine how many times they have headed a soccer ball in the past year and then they completed computerized tests to determine if any damage had occurred. The results are startling- most patients who have “headed” the ball a significant amount of times in their lives showed significant loss of white matter in their brains which is essential for memory, attention and processing visual information.
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