Occupational Patterns of Structural Brain Health: Independent Contributions Beyond Education, Gender, Intelligence, and Age.

ABSTRACT: Occupational activity represents a large percentage of people's daily activity and thus likely is as impactful for people's general and cognitive health as other lifestyle components such as leisure activity, sleep, diet, and exercise. Different occupations, however, require different skills, abilities, activities, credentials, work styles, etc., constituting a rich multidimensional formative exposure with likely consequences for brain development over the lifespan. In the current study, we were interested in how different occupations with their different attributes relate to five variables: structural brain health, duration of early-life education, gender, IQ, and age, although the main focus was the relationship to brain health. To this end, we used the Occupation Information Network (O<

SUBMITTER: Habeck C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6933301 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature