{"id":158627,"date":"2023-02-21T00:28:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/space-travel-influences-the-way-the-brain-works"},"modified":"2023-02-21T00:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:28:25","slug":"space-travel-influences-the-way-the-brain-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/space-travel-influences-the-way-the-brain-works","title":{"rendered":"Space travel influences the way the brain works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-travel-influences-the-way-the-brain-works2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists of the University of Antwerp and University of Li\u00e8ge (Belgium) have found how the human brain changes and adapts to weightlessness after being in space for six months. Some of the changes turned out to be lasting\u2014even after eight months back on Earth. Rapha\u00ebl Li\u00e9geois, soon to be the third Belgian in space, acknowledges the importance of the research \u201cto prepare the new generation of astronauts for longer missions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A child who learns not to drop a glass on the floor, or a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/tennis+player\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tennis player<\/a> predicting the course of an incoming ball to hit it accurately are examples of how the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> incorporates the physical laws of gravity to optimally function on Earth. Astronauts who go to space reside in a weightless environment, where the brain\u2019s rules about gravity are no longer applicable.<\/p>\n<p>A new study on <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+function\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain function<\/a> in cosmonauts has revealed how the brain\u2019s organization is changed after a six-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS), demonstrating the adaptation that is required to live in weightlessness. The findings are published in the journal Communications Biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists of the University of Antwerp and University of Li\u00e8ge (Belgium) have found how the human brain changes and adapts to weightlessness after being in space for six months. Some of the changes turned out to be lasting\u2014even after eight months back on Earth. Rapha\u00ebl Li\u00e9geois, soon to be the third Belgian in space, acknowledges [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}