{"id":158119,"date":"2023-02-15T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/study-confirms-brain-changes-in-fighter-pilots-similar-to-astronauts"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:25:36","slug":"study-confirms-brain-changes-in-fighter-pilots-similar-to-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/study-confirms-brain-changes-in-fighter-pilots-similar-to-astronauts","title":{"rendered":"Study confirms brain changes in fighter pilots, similar to astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-confirms-brain-changes-in-fighter-pilots-similar-to-astronauts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pilots with considerable flight experience \u2018showed specific brain connectivity patterns in areas related to processing sensorimotor information\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Research has analyzed the brain activity of F16 fighter pilots to learn how they adapt to altered gravity levels and rapidly process conflicting sensory information, which can be similar to those experienced by astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>The team used MRI scans to conclude that pilots with considerable flight experience \u201cshowed specific brain connectivity patterns in areas related to processing sensorimotor information. They also showed differences in brain connectivity compared with non-pilots,\u201d according to a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilots with considerable flight experience \u2018showed specific brain connectivity patterns in areas related to processing sensorimotor information\u2019. Research has analyzed the brain activity of F16 fighter pilots to learn how they adapt to altered gravity levels and rapidly process conflicting sensory information, which can be similar to those experienced by astronauts. The team used MRI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}