Sensorimotor recovery following spaceflight may be due to frequent square-wave saccadic intrusions

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 700-704

  Reschke, Millard ^a   Somers, Jeffrey T ^b   Leigh, R John ^c   Krnavek, Jody M ^b   Kornilova, Ludmila ^d   Kozlovskaya, Inessa ^d   Bloomberg, Jacob J ^a   Paloski, William H ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Astronaut; Dynamic posture; Dynamic visual acuity; Gaze holding; Long duration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; COSMONAUT; DYNAMIC BODY POSTURE; DYNAMIC VISUAL ACUITY; EYE FIXATION; GAZE; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; SQUARE WAVE JERK; SQUARE WAVE SACCADIC INTRUSION; VISUAL ACUITY;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MIR PROJECT;

ASTRONAUTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SACCADES; SENSATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE MOTION SICKNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION;

EID: 3442880121     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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