Sufficient sleep duration and good sleep quality are crucial to ensure normal physical and
mental health, cognition and work performance for the common people, as well as …

The recently renewed focus on the human exploration of outer space has boosted the
interest toward a variety of questions regarding health of astronauts and cosmonauts …

Circadian rhythm disorder (CRD) in space flight can lead to memory impairment,
performance decrements and adverse health outcomes, the main manifestations of which …

Human cognitive impairment associated with sleep loss, circadian misalignment and work
overload is a major concern in any high stress occupation but has potentially catastrophic …

Purpose Astronauts on the planned missions to Mars are expected to have to work more
autonomously than on previous missions. Thus mission success may be influenced by the …

Astronauts on deep space missions will be required to work autonomously and thus their
ability to perform executive functions could be critical to mission success. Ground-based …

Sleep loss, circadian desynchronization, and work overload occur to some extent for ground
and flight crews, prior to and during spaceflight missions. Ground evidence indicates that …

Abstract When the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine was awareded in 2017 to Jeffrey C.
Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young, the new era of chronobiology and medicine …

Introduction Spaceflight environment presents unique demands on human physiology;
among those demands, is sleep. Sleep loss and circadian desynchronization it's a major …

Deep space flight missions will expose astronauts to multiple stressors, including sleep
fragmentation and space radiation. There is debate over whether sleep disruptions are an …