ArticleFrontiers in neurology2019
No Evidence of Association Between Soccer Heading and Cognitive Performance in Professional Soccer Players: Cross-Sectional Results.
Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cognitive Effects of Heading in Professional Football: A Systematic Review.International journal of sports medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Executive Function Strengths in Athletes: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of dabigatran versus warfarin on 2-year cognitive outcomes in old patients with atrial fibrillation: results from the GIRAF randomized clinical trial.BMC medicine · 2022Trial
- Reliability of self-reported career histories reported by former professional association football players included in the health and ageing data iN the game of football (HEADING) study.Annals of work exposures and health · 2026Article
- Associations Between Neurofeedback, Anthropometrics, Technical, Physical, and Tactical Performance in Young Women's Football Players.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Cognitive functioning and soccer heading: one-year longitudinal assessment among professional players.Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2025Article
- Soccer's AI transformation: deep learning's analysis of soccer's pandemic research evolution.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Cerebral and cognitive modifications in retired professional soccer players: TC-FOOT protocol, a transverse analytical study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- ADHD May Associate With Reduced Tolerance to Acute Subconcussive Head Impacts: A Pilot Case-Control Intervention Study.Journal of attention disorders · 2022Article
- Tomographic Task-Related Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Acute Sport-Related Concussion: An Observational Case Study.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Observational
- An Acute Bout of Soccer Heading Subtly Alters Neurovascular Coupling Metrics.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Although the scientific community has focused on the effects of concussions in contact sports, the role of subconcussive impacts, as it can occur during soccer heading, has recently gained attention, considering that it may represent an additional mechanism of cumulative brain injury. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of soccer heading on cognitive functioning in active professional soccer players. Male soccer players (
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