The effect of weightlessness and hypergravity on both hemodynamic and electrophysiological processes in the brain is going to be followed during parabolic flight by EEG and NIRS techniques.
A feasibility study of a more complex experiment, which is planned to carry out during medium- and long-term space flight.
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