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Behavioral Health and Performance: An Overview

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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.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    David F. Dinges

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Laurence R. Young

  2. Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Jeffrey P. Sutton

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  1. Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    David F. Dinges

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Dinges, D.F. (2020). Behavioral Health and Performance: An Overview. In: Young, L.R., Sutton, J.P. (eds) Handbook of Bioastronautics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10152-1_121-2

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    Behavioral Health and Performance: An Overview
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10152-1_121-2

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10152-1_121-1

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