title: [The impact of long-term isolation on visual acuity].
abstract: During the experiment with 90- and 7-day isolation and confinement tests were applied to evaluate, along with static, expositional and dynamic (DVA) visual acuity using automated system VZGLIAD (Gaze). Test distance was 1 meter. To assess DVA, the subjects were requested to make oscillatory movements with the head in the horizontal plane with a metronome frequency at 1 Hz. An upward trend in static visual acuity was interpreted as a result of myopization engendered by exposure to confinement and video display. A significant loss in expositional (and dynamic) visual acuity was stated in the main (p > 0.01) and visiting (p > 0.1) crews. These shifts could be associated with the dominance of inhibitory processes in the visual cortex due to monotony of the visual environment and insufficient oculomotor and accommodative activities.
authors.affiliation: Gosudarstvennyĭ nauchnyĭ tsentr RF "Institut mediko-biologicheskikh problem".
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Bokhov
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Nosovskiĭ
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013026:Space Flight; D013997:Time Factors; D014792:Visual Acuity