Concerns about the long-term effects of heading in soccer are becoming harder for the sport’s governing bodies to ignore. As research continues to link repeated head impacts such as those sustained ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Greater repetitive head injury was associated with lower fractional anisotrophy and higher orientation ...

Soccer heading linked to brain abnormalities, especially in the frontal lobe. Study finds repeated head impacts may impair cognitive performance, even without concussions. Researchers stress the need ...

Thomas Kaminski has studied heading in soccer and concussion risk for nearly three decades. The professor of kinesiology and applied physiology at the University of Delaware College of Health Sciences ...

New University of Sydney research reveals heading a soccer ball can subtly change brain chemistry and function. MRI scans and blood tests showed signs of brain cell disturbance despite no short-term ...

CHICAGO – Soccer heading may cause more damage to the brain than previously thought, according to a study being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America ...