According to Digital Trends, a new study has examined how long-duration space flight affects connectivity in the brain.
Russian researchers used MRIs to examine the brains of eleven astronauts before and after space flight. Their brains compensated for time in space by developing “an auxiliary system of somatosensory control.”
Other differences in the astronauts’ brains as well included greater connectivity between the left and right insulae than in controls. There was also greater connectivity between these lobes and other brain areas.
