Heads Up: Female Soccer Players More Prone to Brain Damage Than Males

Ladies, looks like we might have another thing to worry about -- well, at least for those of us who play soccer. New, unpublished research, presented in November at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington, D.C., suggests female soccer players experience greater brain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 regio