Gray Matter Compression with Spaceflight

This video shows the brain both pre- and post-flight for one astronaut who completed a multi-month mission to the International Space Station. Here we highlight pre- to post-flight compression of the gray matter at the top of the brain.
To read more on these findings, please see our paper:
Hupfeld, K. E., McGregor, H. R., Lee, J. K., Beltran, N. E., Kofman, I. S., De Dios, Y. E., ... & Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2020). The Impact of 6 and 12 Months in Space on Human Brain Structure and Intracranial Fluid Shifts. Cerebral cortex communications, 1(1), tgaa023.
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