Bookeditors Brandon R. Macias, UC San Diego, USA, John H.K. Liu, UC San Diego, USA, Christian Otto, NASA Johnson Space Center, USA, Alan R. Hargens, UC San Diego, USA.
Summary: "Fluid distribution during spaceflight and impact on brain and vision health is an emerging field of high-priority research in the NASA human space program. International Space Station astronauts have developed ocular refraction changes during prolonged spaceflight. Within this book, experts review current data related to fluid shifts during microgravity exposure and the impact of fluid shifts on astronaut health. This work also compares current astronaut health problems with Earth-based health conditions such as elevated intracranial pressure and glaucoma. Chapters include discussion of altered fluid distribution, including intracellular and extracellular fluid shifts, eye morphology and vision disturbances, and intraocular pressure. In addition, chapters will include a discussion of advanced non-invasive technologies to investigate the abovementioned fluid volume and pressure variables. As such, the book aims to bridge health professionals, researchers, and science professionals by a presentation of ophthalmology topics critical to future human space exploration, thus providing new perspectives to solve emerging brain and eye disease on Earth and in Space."--Publisher's website.
Contents:
Introduction to visual impairment and intracranial pressure / Brandon R. Macias and Alan R. Hargens
Early evidence of vision impairment after long-duration space flight / Thomas H. Mader and C. Robert Gibson
Eye, orbit, and pituitary MRI : relevance to space medicine / Larry A. Kramer
Fluid shifts and cardiovascular-related factors that may contribute to the VIIP syndrome in astronauts / Michael B. Stenger, Steven S. Laurie, Stuart M.C. Lee
Intracranial pressure physiology and VIIP / Sara Qvarlander and Michael A. Williams
High-altitude illness and intracranial pressure / Mark H. Wilson
Noninvasive measurement of intracranial pressure with the Vvittamed absolute value meter / Eric M. Bershad and Richard Dunham
NASA's research approach to the visual impairment intracranial pressure risk / Christian Otto
Advanced imaging of the intracranial physiology of spaceflight / Donna R. Roberts, Thomas McLaren and Michael U. Antonucci
Sensory and sensorimotor changes with spaceflight : implications for functional performance / Rachael D. Seidler, Vincent Koppelmans, Jacob Bloomberg and Ajitkumar P. Mulavara
Lower body negative pressure as a VIIP countermeasure / Jessica M. Scott and John B. Charles
A pressure theory links the VIIP syndrome and eye diseases / John H.K. Liu.