In this episode of the UCLA BrainSPORT Podcast, UCSF Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience and Principal Investigator at Altos Labs, Dr. Susanna Rossi, and Adel discuss the effect of deep space travel on the brain.
In Part A, the pair primarily discuss the most pressing issue to deep space travel, cosmic radiation. They discuss particular brain regions susceptible to radiation injury, how this radiation injury would manifest in astronauts, and a potential intervention to fight radiation brain injury.
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00:00 Space Medicine
02:28 Outer Orbit Space Travel
07:20 Stressors of Space
11:17 Cognitive Deficits from Cosmic Radiation
17:44 Genetic Dispositions to Radiation Brain Injury
19:22 Sex Differences in Radiation Brain Injury