Heading increases brain inflammation, which can increase dementia risk This is the first study to track football players' brains over a long period of time READ MORE: Probiotics could protect ...

Heading a football has been linked to a “measurable” decline in the microstructure and function of the brain over a two-year period. A new study examined 148 young adult amateur football ...

The rules are being introduced following research that showed former footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die from brain disease. There are growing fears that regular heading of ...

keele.ac.uk After fevered media coverage of a possible link between football (soccer) heading and long-term damage to the brain, 2016 saw the Professional Footballers’ Association call for a review of ...

The issue of brain injuries potentially caused by repeated ... Children 10 years old and younger were forbidden from heading in the United States both during practice and games in 2016.