'Brain changes' seen in young American footballers

Some teenagers appear to show changes in their brains after one season of playing American football, a small study suggests. Even though players were not concussed during the season, researchers found abnormalities similar to the effects of mild traumatic brain injury. Twenty-four players aged between 16 and 18 were studied and devices on their helmets measured head impacts. The study was presented to the Radiological Society of North America. When players are hit, the brain moves violently within the skull. The harder the hit is, the more the brain is going to move”

Dr Alex Powers, co-author and paediatric neurosurgeon at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre in North Carolina, said the changes were a direct result of the hits received by the young players during their football season. BBC; Dec.1 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30248886

Eclipses that have long gone continue to affect us as and when important planetary configurations contained in the eclipse chart move over the angles. For this news we will start with the April 29, 2014 solar eclipse at Winston-Salem, North Carolina where Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre is located. The eclipse [9ta] was conjunct the asteroid Toro [10ta].  It was also conjunct the star Hamal [1], alpha Aries [8ta] in the butting head of the Ram (see image). The asteroid Psyche [13aq] was square Toro [10ta].  Martha Wescott links with Toro with “football”  and Psyche with “brain injuries” [2] and provides the following key sentence for the combination.

Psyche-Toro

"Head injuries" may grab your  attention --as may things like the neurological effect of  football or prize-fighting.

Progressing the eclipse chart to Dec.1, the date of the news, aligns the radix Sun and Moon with the descendant triggering the event reported.

[1] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Hamal.html

[2] Astrological Keywords ll