{"id":32353,"date":"2016-12-02T12:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T20:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/scientists-have-finally-figured-out-why-astronauts-lose-their-vision-while-in-space"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:14:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:14:34","slug":"scientists-have-finally-figured-out-why-astronauts-lose-their-vision-while-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/scientists-have-finally-figured-out-why-astronauts-lose-their-vision-while-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have finally figured out why astronauts lose their vision while in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-finally-figured-out-why-astronauts-lose-their-vision-while-in-space.jpg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Radiologists have finally figured out why astronauts who spend a lot of time in space get impaired vision.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, called visual impairment intracranial pressure (VIIP) syndrome, has been reported in two-thirds of astronauts who go up to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/press.rsna.org\/timssnet\/media\/pressreleases\/PDF\/pressreleasePDF.cfm?ID=1915\">according to a new study<\/a> from researchers at the University of Miami \u2014 reported Monday at the Radiological Society of North America\u2019s annual conference \u2014 those changes to the eye have everything to do with changes in the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/astronauts-sight-space-radiology-2016-11\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/astronauts-sight-space-radiology-2016&#45;11<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiologists have finally figured out why astronauts who spend a lot of time in space get impaired vision. The problem, called visual impairment intracranial pressure (VIIP) syndrome, has been reported in two-thirds of astronauts who go up to the International Space Station. And according to a new study from researchers at the University of Miami [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32353","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\/355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49522,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32353\/revisions\/49522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}