Youth Soccer Header Study

Participant fit with commercially available Storelli ExoShield Head Guard that has been fit with head impact sensors; participant completes a set of basic standing header tasks which mimic the types of purposeful heading anticipated to occur in actual play in soccer practice and games.

Scanning will include high resolution T1w imaging for 3-dimensional structural analyses, DTI and resting-state MRI for assessment of structural and functional brain network connectivity, as well as susceptibility-weighted imaging and multicomponent relaxometry to assess for microhemorrhages and myelin damage.