Research is taking place at the University of East Anglia (UEA) to launch a project to test former professional footballers for the early signs of dementia by using gaming technology.
New Initiative
The new initiative follows research by the University of Glasgow, which found that the risk of retired male football players developing Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common cause of dementia, was five times greater than that of the average person.
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