Psychological countermeasures during space missions: Russian experience.
This paper is devoted to the description of Russian methodology of in-flight countermeasures. They include in-flight monitoring of astronaut's psycho-physiological state, working capacity and interrelations. Relying on this data the set of psychological support measures is executed throughout the Mission in order to prevent fatigue due to overload and monotony, psycho-emotional disturbances, deprivation phenomena, conflicts in the crew.
Gushin
Vadim
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Institute for Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia. vgushin@imbp.ru