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 ...

The forehead is what soccer players generally use for the most ... Players more likely to head the ball showed abnormalities in the white matter adjacent to the sulci – the grooves in the ...

Bouncing a soccer ball off the head during play could be doing real damage to the brain, a new study suggests. MRI brain scans of male and female soccer athletes suggests that lots of "heading ...