Space Is Dangerous! Just Look at What It Does to Astronauts’ Brains…
We're learning about what space does to our bodies, but what about our brains? MRI scans of astronauts revealed some worrying results. What Does Radiation Poisoning Do to Your Body? - https://yo...
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Spaceflight does a number on our bodies — we lose muscle mass and density, fluids shift in strange ways, there’s even evidence that radiation exposure in space increases risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. And now new research has revealed that long-term missions expand brain tissue with some scary results. I’m never going to get to go to Mars. In all the research done on how spaceflight affects the body, there’s been fairly little done on the brain, specifically brain tissue and the cerebrospinal fluid space. But that’s not because astronauts don’t show signs of some kind of brain changes when they return from a stint on the International Space Station. Many exhibit symptoms of an ill-understood condition called "visual impair...
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Spaceflight does a number on our bodies — we lose muscle mass and density, fluids shift in strange ways, there’s even evidence that radiation exposure in space increases risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. And now new research has revealed that long-term missions expand brain tissue with some scary results. I’m never going to get to go to Mars. In all the research done on how spaceflight affects the body, there’s been fairly little done on the brain, specifically brain tissue and the cerebrospinal fluid space. But that’s not because astronauts don’t show signs of some kind of brain changes when they return from a stint on the International Space Station. Many exhibit symptoms of an ill-understood condition called "visual impair...
