Soccer headers may hurt women’s brains more than men’s
MRI scans show signs of white matter damage for both sexes
By
Laura Sanders
10:00am, July 31, 2018
HEADS UP A head-to-head comparison finds that heading a soccer ball may damage white matter in women’s brains more than men’s.
Heading soccer balls may have high stakes for women’s brains, a study of amateur soccer players suggests.
Among amateur players who headed a similar number of balls, women had more signs of microscopic damage in their brains’ white matter than men, scientists report July 31 in Radiology.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/soccer-headers-may-hurt-female-brains-more-male
