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Aging and space flight: findings from the University of PittsburghFor more than a decade, the Sleep and Chronobiology Center (SCC) at the University of Pittsburgh has received funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in order to study the sleep and circadian rhythms of healthy older people, as well as the sleep and circadian rhythms of astronauts and cosmonauts. We have always been struck by the strong synergism between the two endeavors. What happens to the sleep and circadian rhythms of people removed from the terrestrial time cues of Earth is in many ways similar to what happens to people who are advancing in years. Most obviously, sleep is shorter and sleep depth is reduced, but there are also more subtle similarities between the two situations, both in circadian rhythms and in sleep, and in the adaptive strategies needed to enhance 24h zeitgebers.
Document ID
20040088923
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Monk, T. H.
(University of Pittsburgh Medical Center PA 15213, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1999
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of gravitational physiology : a journal of the International Society for Gravitational Physiology
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
ISSN: 1077-9248
Subject Category
Aerospace Medicine
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS9-19407
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS9-18404
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG9-1036
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
STS-78 Shuttle Project
long duration
NASA Experiment Number 9401639
Mir Project
Flight Experiment
STS-81 Shuttle Project
manned
Non-NASA Center
STS-84 Shuttle Project
short duration
NASA Discipline Regulatory Physiology
NASA Experiment Number 8913048

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