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About the Neurosciences Laboratories
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The absence of gravity during space flight leads to adaptive changes in central
nervous system function. The Neuroscience Laboratories investigates
the effects of space flight on the human nervous system,
with particular emphasis on posture and gait function, eye-head
coordination, perception, space motion sickness and vestibular-autonomic
function. The central focus of the laboratory is the development
of countermeasures to mitigate the space flight related changes
in nervous system function associated with  adaptation to
microgravity and return to gravitational environments. The
laboratory supports ground-based and in-flight investigations,
crew health monitoring, risk mitigation operational activities
and countermeasures evaluation and validation research. The
Neuroscience Laboratories are composed of the Motion Laboratory,
Neuroautonomic Laboratory, Off-Vertical Axis Rotator (OVAR)
Laboratory, Postural Control Laboratory, Preflight Adaptation
and Virtual Reality Training Lab, Sensorimotor Laboratory,
Short-Arm Centrifuge Laboratory, Visual-Vestibular (Gaze)
Laboratory.
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