Author: Laura Sanders / Source: Science News
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.
Female athletes are known to have worse symptoms after brain injuries than male athletes, but a clear head-to-head comparison of post-heading brains hadn’t been done until now.
From 2013 to 2016, study coauthor Michael Lipton of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., and colleagues recruited 98 soccer players from amateur teams, including from colleges. The researchers…The post Soccer headers may hurt women’s brains more than men’s appeared first on FeedBox.