Posts Tagged ‘spaceflight’
Next in NASA’s path to Mars: Overcoming astronauts’ cognitive and mental health challenges
Space Between the Ears (Cerebrum): A few short months ago, news programs around the globe showed NASA engineers and scientists celebrating as a robot named Perseverance successfully landed on the surface of Mars. The mission: capture and share images and audio that have never been seen or heard before. As impressed as most observers were…
Read MoreGrowing concern (and hope) about astronauts’ cognitive health during spaceflight
About the concern: Brain MRI scans may help NASA plan safer missions to space (Health Imaging): “Not a lot is known about cognitive impairment in humans during spaceflight,” Donna R. Roberts, MD, Medical University of South Carolina’s Department of Radiology, said in a statement
Read MoreNeuroimaging study finds significant changes in brain structure during long-duration space flight
MRI reveals brain changes during space missions (Medical Physics): “Astronauts living and working in space will experience the detrimental effects of microgravity on the human body. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station, for example, have experienced altered vision and increased pressure inside their heads, symptoms termed as
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