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Effects of Long-Duration Spaceflight on General and Spatial Cognition and Its Neural Basis
Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania
Summary
This study investigates the effects of extended-duration spaceflight (12-month International Space Station missions) on general cognitive performance (measured with the Cognition test battery), spatial cognition, structural and functional brain changes in general, and hippocampal plasticity more specifically relative to the shorter 6-month and 2-month missions.
Official title: Temporal Nature of Cognitive and Visuospatial Brain Domain Changes During Long-Duration Low-Earth Orbit Missions (Spatial Cognition)
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
Any - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
14
Start Date
2021-08-01
Completion Date
2028-06-30
Last Updated
2025-10-10
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Spaceflight
Exposure to the spaceflight environment on the International Space Station for 2, 6, or 12 months.
Controls
No intervention
Locations (3)
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Houston, Texas, United States
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany