Female Soccer Players More Prone to Brain Damage Than Males

Source: http://www.brainhealtheducation.org/female-soccer-players-more-prone-to-brain-damage-than-males/

New, unpublished research, presented in November at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference suggests female soccer players experience greater brain damage from heading the ball than men do. The injury occurs in white matter tracts — the long, branch-like nerve fibers, or axons, that extend from neurons, crisscross the brain and connect different regions. The research

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Source: http://www.brainhealtheducation.org/female-soccer-players-more-prone-to-brain-damage-than-males/

New, unpublished research, presented in November at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference suggests female soccer players experience greater brain damage from heading the ball than men do. The injury occurs in white matter tracts — the long, branch-like nerve fibers, or axons, that extend from neurons, crisscross the brain and connect different regions. The research

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