📅 This Sunday ⏰ 10:30pm 📺 BBC One 👉 Alan Shearer documentary, 'Dementia, Football & Me' Featuring UofS research, Alan investigates links between heading footballs & dementia in later life. Here's a sneak preview from the UofS test lab, courtesy of the BBC ⚽️👇 | University of Stirling

A recent BBC documentary fronted by Alan Shearer looked at a possible link between football and dementia, following worrying rates of dementia diagnoses among former footballers. Shearer heard from researchers who have shown changes in electrical patterns in the brain shortly after someone performs a run of headers. However, it’s not clear whether these changes are specific to heading, or whether they have any relationship whatsoever with memory problems or dementia in the long-run. What is clea