Heading a football can significantly affect a player's brain function and memory up to a day, a study by researchers at Scotland's Stirling University has said. “We found there was in fact increased inhibition in the brain immediately after heading and that performance on memory tests was reduced significantly,” Dr Magdalena Ietswaart, a cognitive neuroscientist at Sterling University, told the BBC on Monday. “Although the changes were temporary, we believe they are significant to brain health, particularly if they happen over and over again as they do in football heading,” she added.
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Heading footballs ‘affects memory’: study