Source: Seeker.com, December 28, 2017
We’re learning about what space does to our bodies, but what about our brains? MRI scans of astronauts revealed some worrying results.
Spaceflight does a number on our bodies. We lose muscle mass and density, fluids shift in strange ways, there’s even evidence that radiation exposure in space increases risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Now, new research has revealed that long-term missions expand brain tissue with some scary results.
In all the research done on how spaceflight affects the body, there’s been fairly little done on the brain, specifically brain tissue and the cerebrospinal fluid space.
