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11541655

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-3-17
pubmed:abstractText
Vestibular disturbances in connection with space flight were reported by a majority of participating astronauts and cosmonauts. These include motion sickness symptoms in the first few days of the space flight, as well as standing, gait and orientation disturbances after the return to Earth. The Aerospace Medical Community has been trying to select those people that are particularly adapted to the above stresses or that can be further adapted through training programs. As the circle of selectees extends to women, the problem arises as to whether differences between men and women exist under the conditions of space flight. In seeking answers to this question we studied a group of 42 women and 44 men, who were further subdivided according to their subjective motion sickness sensitivity, as determined by a questionnaire. Using this material, 26 men and 22 women were designated as motion sickness resistant, and 18 men and 20 women were designated as nonresistant. The vestibular test battery given these test subjects consisted of caloric, rotatory, optokinetic, vestibulo-spinal and vestibulo-vegetative testing. Because of the mixed orthostatic and vestibular problems seen after space flights, we also studied the response of the vestibular apparatus during peripheral blood pooling as induced by lower body negative pressure. The collected historical and test data are analyzed in this paper with emphasis on the relationship to motion sickness tendency.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
S
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0094-5765
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NASA
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1323-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1980
pubmed:articleTitle
Male and female characteristics in vestibular testing: a step toward the selection of the best participants for space flight.
pubmed:affiliation
DFVLR, Institut fuer Flugmedizin, Bonn, FRG.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study