Commentary Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/rehabilitation.3.012
A rationale for the use of rehabilitative approaches to ameliorate possible space radiation induced loss of cognitive and sensorimotor function during a mission to Mars
Richard A. Britten1,2,3,4,*, Ashley A. Blackwell1,2,3,4
- 1Department of Radiation Oncology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, United States
- 2Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, United States
- 3Leroy T Canoles Jr. Cancer Center, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, United States
- 4Center for Integrative Neuroinflammatory and Inflammatory diseases, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, United States
Corresponding Author
Richard A. Britten, brittera@evms.edu
Received Date: October 10, 2021
Accepted Date: November 30, 2021
Britten RA, Blackwell AA. A rationale for the use of rehabilitative approaches to ameliorate possible space radiation induced loss of cognitive and sensorimotor function during a mission to Mars. J Rehabil Res Pract 2022;3(1):29-34.
Copyright: © 2022 Britten RA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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