The Burden of Space Exploration on the Mental Health of Astronauts: A Narrative Review.
astronauts
mental health
mental well-being
space missions
space travel
Journal
Clinical neuropsychiatry
ISSN: 2385-0787
Titre abrégé: Clin Neuropsychiatry
Pays: Italy
ID NLM: 101237961
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2021
Oct 2021
Historique:
entrez:
5
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2022
pubmed:
6
1
2022
medline:
6
1
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Space travel, a topic of global interest, has always been a fascinating matter, as its potential appears to be infinite. The development of advanced technologies has made it possible to achieve objectives previously considered dreams and to widen more and more the limits that the human species can overcome. The dangers that astronauts may face are not minimal, and the impacts on physical and mental health may be significant. Specifically, symptoms of emotional dysregulation, cognitive dysfunction, disruption of sleep-wake rhythms, visual phenomena and significant changes in body weight, along with morphological brain changes, are some of the most frequently reported occurrences during space missions. Given the renewed interest and investment on space explorations, the aim of this paper was thus to summarize the evidence of the currently available literature, and to offer an overview of the factors that might impair the psychological well-being and mental health of astronauts. To achieve the goal of this paper, the authors accessed some of the main databases of scientific literature and collected evidence from articles that successfully fulfilled the purpose of this work. The results of this review demonstrated how the psychological and psychiatric problems occurring during space missions are manifold and related to a multiplicity of variables, thus requiring further attention from the scientific community as new challenges lie ahead, and prevention of mental health of space travelers should be carefully considered.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34984067
doi: 10.36131/cnfioritieditore20210502
pmc: PMC8696290
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Pagination
237-246Informations de copyright
© 2021 Giovanni Fioriti Editore s.r.l.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: None.
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