{"id":294872,"date":"2026-07-13T21:24:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294872\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:24:41","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-study-playing-soccer-may-impact-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294872\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Study Playing Soccer May Impact Brain Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A new study warns that playing soccer could potentially affect one&#8217;s long-term brain health.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The study looked at former professional players using questionnaires, clinical assessments and brain scans.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Researchers found no major impact on cognition but say participants did have lower gray matter in certain regions of the brain compared to people who didn&#8217;t play contact sports.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">These regions include those affecting memory, decision-making and emotional regulation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The study also found that participants reported higher levels of anxiety and depression, along with problems with thinking or decision making.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The leader author says the study shows correlation but no causation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study warns that playing soccer could potentially affect one&#8217;s long-term brain health. The study looked at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-294872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}