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This overview of the behavioral health and performance chapters provides a perspective on the challenges to behavioral health and performance posed by spaceflight and the lessons learned from the history of terrestrial and spaceflight expeditions, as well as the key role of assessing cognitive functions in spaceflight, ensuring adequate sleep and circadian entrainment in spaceflight, and maintaining a system to manage behavioral health in prolonged spaceflight.
Exploration of space and ultimately living in spacecraft and on celestial bodies other than Earth are logical extensions in the human story. Modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens), the only surviving species of the genus Homo, emerged approximately 50–80,000 years ago with neurobehavioral capability and cognitive traits that include abstract thinking, planning, and development of technologies, among other skills. Since first appearing, humans have migrated over more than 80% of the total land surface of Earth. Thus,...
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Dinges, D.F. (2019). Behavioral Health and Performance: An Overview. In: Young, L., Sutton, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Bioastronautics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10152-1_121-1
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