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  • Heading footballs ‘affects memory’: study

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    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…

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    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…

  • Syrian refugee crisis is changing women’s roles: aid agency

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    By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Syrian refugee crisis is changing women’s traditional roles with increasing numbers becoming heads of households and the main breadwinners, an international aid agency said on Saturday ahead of a global refugee summit. Most women view the changes negatively with many feeling far more vulnerable to violence,…