Brain structure variability study in pilots based on VBM

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276957
• Publication Date: 2023-01-27T18:55:27Z
• Authors: Kaijun Xu; Rui Liu; Xi Chen; Yong Yang; Quanchuan Wang
• Keywords: Fusiform gyrus; Lingual gyrus; Voxel-based morphometry; Gray (unit); Grey matter

The impact of occupations on brain structures has attracted considerable research interests in the last decade. aim this is to find effect flight training gray matter volume pilots. whole-brain structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) data collected from 26 pilots and 24 controls was analyzed using Voxel-based morphological analysis method (VBM) combined with T1 quantitatively detect local tissue calculate volume. result shows that pilot group larger lingual gyrus fusiform compared control (P<0.05). Furthermore, there a positive correlation between number hours (r = 0.426, P 0.048) after studying average value agglomerate participants whose are 0 1000 hours. involved high-level visual processing, memory, multisensory integration perception. study indicated could enlarge gyrus. During flying, need observe instrumentation cockpit fully interpret readings, which may lead results.