What happens to your brain on the way to Mars

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Parihar, Vipan K ^a   Allen, Barrett ^a   Tran, Katherine K ^a   Macaraeg, Trisha G ^a   Chu, Esther M ^a   Kwok, Stephanie F ^a   Chmielewski, Nicole N ^a   Craver, Brianna M ^a   Baulch, Janet E ^a   Acharya, Munjal M ^a   Cucinotta, Francis A ^b   Limoli, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHARGED PARTICLES; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; NASA; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BEHAVIORAL PERFORMANCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITIES; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; RADIATION SENSITIVITY; RADIATION-INDUCED ALTERATIONS; RADIATION-INDUCED REDUCTIONS; SPACE RADIATION EXPOSURE;

NEURONS;

EID: 85042111853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400256     Document Type: Article

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