Space travel has advanced significantly over the last six decades with astronauts spending
up to 6 months at the International Space Station. Nonetheless, the living environment while …

As NASA prepares for the first manned mission to Mars in the next 20 years, close attention
has been placed on the cognitive welfare of astronauts, who will likely endure extended …

The Mars mission will result in an inevitable exposure to cosmic radiation that has been
shown to cause cognitive impairments in rodent models, and possibly in astronauts …

The response of the human body to multiple spaceflight stressors is complex, but mounting
evidence implicate risks to CNS functionality as significant, able to threaten metrics of …

The radiation environment in deep space includes the galactic cosmic radiation with
different proportions of all naturally occurring ions from protons to uranium. Most …

Purpose: Heavy ion and proton brain irradiations occur during space travel and in Hadron
therapy for cancer. Heavy ions produce distinct patterns of energy deposition in neuron cells …

Cranial irradiation is the main therapeutic treatment for primary and metastatic malignancies
in the brain. However, cranial radiation therapy produces long-term impairment in memory …

Cranial radiotherapy, although beneficial for the treatment of brain tumors, inevitably leads
to normal tissue damage that can induce unintended neurocognitive complications that are …

The radiation fields in space define tangible risks to the health of astronauts, and significant
work in rodent models has clearly shown a variety of exposure paradigms to compromise …

Central nervous system (CNS) damage by galactic cosmic ray radiation is a major health
risk for human deep space exploration. Simulated galactic cosmic rays or their components …