UA Podcast: Effects of Long Term Space Isolation

Though the mission to Mars may still be a few decades away, researchers like Dr. Stefan Schneider from the Institute of movement and neuroscience at the German Sport University Cologne have been busy researching all aspects of how the long journey would affect astronauts and what can be done to counter those effects. With the completion of the 520 day isolation study last year, and all the experiments leading up to it, we now know more about the psychological and physiological stress that comes with it.

In this program, our first edition of a new weekly podcast from United Academics, we hear from Dr. Schneider who explains what has been learned from the experiments and what this means for the mission to Mars. Press play to listen or download the podcast and listen to it later.

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Schneider, S., Brümmer, V., Carnahan, H., Kleinert, J., Piacentini, M., Meeusen, R., & Strüder, H. (2010). Exercise as a countermeasure to psycho-physiological deconditioning during long-term confinement Behavioural Brain Research, 211 (2), 208-214 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.03.034

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