A recent study of a research team from the universities of Fordam, Dilayer, Colombia and Albert Einstein in the United States of America revealed that a lot of hitting the ball during football matches leads to deep changes within the brain folds of the players, which affects memory and thinking.
The study, published by the scientific journal Neurology (Neurology), compared neuroscientists between more than 350 amateur soccer players and about 80 athletes practicing non -frictional sports, and the volunteers were conducted for the brain’s rays to identify the movement of water molecules inside certain folds in the brain.
It turned out from the study that the players who continue to hit the ball with the head during the matches, more than 3 thousand times a year, are subjected to disturbances in a thin layer surrounding the white matter near the cerebral cortex.
The volunteer research team is also subject to tests to measure the capabilities of thinking and memory.
“While exercise involves a great benefit, including the risk of reducing the deterioration of the cognitive functions of the brain, the repetition of the headache during the practice of some friction sports such as football may nullify these benefits,” said doctor Michael Lipton of Columbia University.
The members of the study team stated that these results highlight some places that may be exposed to this practice within the brain.
It is worth noting that the brain is the largest part of the brain and is located at the top of the skull, and is responsible for thinking, learning, memory, emotions, and movement.
The brain is divided into two right and left halves, and each half controls the body corresponding to it, and the outer brain layer is called the cerebral cortex or gray matter, and it is full of eruptions and wrinkles that increase the area of information processing.