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Date, Time & Location:

Wednesday, 12/07/2016   12:10 - 1:00 p.m.
Kleberg Auditorium





Speaker:

David F. Dinges, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry
Chief, Division of Sleep & Chronobiology
Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs and Program Development

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Lecture Title:

Issues of Behavioral Performance and Behavioral Health in Space




Modern human history is replete with great expeditions that failed due to human error rooted in one organ (the brain).
Exploration of space requires increasingly prolonged periods of confinement, isolation, and exposure to health risks. Maintaining crew members' behavioral capabilities during exploration missions will require finding effective ways to predict, prevent, detect and intervene to counter both individual neurobehavioral deficits and problems of crew cohesion. This talk will review the relevant issues to ensuring humans can cope cognitively, emotionally and socially with the demands of prolonged space flight.

We encourage students, faculty and staff to attend the CSM elective lecture series "Topics in Human Space Exploration and Medicine."   Please contact me if you need additional information about this presentation.

Nancy Gibbins
Director, Business Operations
Center for Space Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
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