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Research Suggests Space Travel Affects the Brain

By February 6, 2017In the News

U.S. News & World Report
February 6, 2017

“This is not a deal-breaker,” co-author Charles Limoli, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine, said last fall. “I do not think that during the course of a trip to Mars and back the astronauts will come back with anything remotely similar to full-blown Alzheimer’s. But more mild changes, more subtle changes − they would still be concerning, given the level of autonomy astronauts operate under and the amount of work they have to do.”
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