Trial reportScientific reports2017
Greater cerebellar gray matter volume in car drivers: an exploratory voxel-based morphometry study.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Left parietal involvement in motion sickness susceptibility revealed by multimodal magnetic resonance imaging.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
- Relationships between Personality Traits and Brain Gray Matter Are Different in Risky and Non-risky Drivers.Behavioural neurology · 2022Article
- Brain Plasticity in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1A Patients? A Combined Structural and Diffusion MRI Study.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
- Cerebellar activation associated with model-based estimation of tool-use consequences.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2019Article
- Speed-related activation in the mesolimbic dopamine system during the observation of driver-view videos.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Previous functional neuroimaging studies have identified multiple brain areas associated with distinct aspects of car driving in simulated traffic environments. Few studies, however, have examined brain morphology associated with everyday car-driving experience in real traffic. Thus, the aim of the current study was to identify gray matter volume differences between drivers and non-drivers. We collected T1-weighted structural brain images from 73 healthy young adults (36 drivers and 37 non-drivers). We performed a whole-brain voxel-based morphometry analysis to examine between-group differences in regional gray matter volume. Compared with non-drivers, drivers showed significantly greater gray matter volume in the left cerebellar hemisphere, which has been associated with cognitive rather than motor functioning. In contrast, we found no brain areas with significantly greater gray matter volume in non-drivers compared with drivers. Our findings indicate that experience with everyday car driving in real traffic is associated with greater gray matter volume in the left cerebellar hemisphere. This brain area may be involved in abilities that are critical for driving a car, but are not commonly or frequently used during other daily activities.
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