{"id":220323,"date":"2014-06-17T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"03e57ddeb0b4c542644525aa5fbe3fc7"},"modified":"2014-06-17T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T09:02:00","slug":"space-brain-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220323","title":{"rendered":"Space-brain networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/06\/space-brain_networking\/14578737-1-eng-GB\/Space-brain_networking_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAn advanced MRI scan of a human brain showing neural networks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHumans are adaptable beings. Wear glasses continuously that turn your view of the world upside-down and inside two weeks your brain will have adapted \u2013 everything will seem normal again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nResearchers suspect that astronauts\u2019 brains adapt to living in weightlessness by using previously untapped links between neurons. As the astronauts learn to float around in their spacecraft, left\u2013right and up\u2013down become second nature as these connections are activated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo confirm this theory, up to 16 astronauts will be put through advanced MRI scanners before and after their flights to study any changes in their brain structure. A control group from Antwerp, Belgium, will undergo the same scans for further comparison.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn parallel, a study is being performed on volunteers aboard aircraft flights that offer 20 seconds of weightlessness at a time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore information can be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/eea.spaceflight.esa.int\/portal\/exp\/?id=9439\">human spaceflight experiment archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/06\/space-brain_networking\/14578737-1-eng-GB\/Space-brain_networking_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAn advanced MRI scan of a human brain showing neural networks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHumans are adaptable beings. Wear glasses continuously that turn your view of the world upside-down and inside two weeks your brain will have adapted \u2013 everything will seem normal again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nResearchers suspect that astronauts\u2019 brains adapt to living in weightlessness by using previously untapped links between neurons. As the astronauts learn to float around in their spacecraft, left\u2013right and up\u2013down become second nature as these connections are activated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo confirm this theory, up to 16 astronauts will be put through advanced MRI scanners before and after their flights to study any changes in their brain structure. A control group from Antwerp, Belgium, will undergo the same scans for further comparison.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn parallel, a study is being performed on volunteers aboard aircraft flights that offer 20 seconds of weightlessness at a time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore information can be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/eea.spaceflight.esa.int\/portal\/exp\/?id=9439\">human spaceflight experiment archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}