Adrian J. Ecker

TL;DR: The results highlight the importance of identifying behavioral, psychological, and biological markers of characteristics that predispose prospective crewmembers to both effective and ineffective behavioral reactions during the confinement of prolonged spaceflight, to inform crew selection, training, and individualized countermeasures.

TL;DR: A high-fidelity ground simulation of a Mars mission was used to objectively track sleep–wake dynamics in a multinational crew of six during 520 d of confined isolation, revealing that crew sedentariness increased across the mission as evident in decreased waking movement and increased sleep and rest times.

TL;DR: The first normative and acute total sleep deprivation data on the Cognition test battery are described as well as several efforts underway to establish the validity, sensitivity, feasibility, and acceptability of Cognition.

TL;DR: This study provides the first systematic evidence that night work and sleep loss adversely affect the accuracy of detecting complex real world objects among high levels of background clutter.

TL;DR: Extended overnight shifts increase the likelihood of chronic sleep restriction in interns and reduced levels of alertness after on-call nights need to be mitigated.