REFERENCES

Focus 7

Certain parts of the text were excerpted and adapted from the following publications and other references:

For the section describing Earth Physiology:

  1. Fox Sl (1987). Human Physiology, 2nd ed. William C Brown Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa.
  2. Guyton AC (1986). Textbook of Medical Physiology, 7th ed. WB Saunders Company, Philadelphia, PA.
  3. Nourse AE (1964) The Body. Life Science Laboratory, Time Incorporated, New York.
  4. Oram RF (1989). Biology: Living Systems. Merrill Publishing Company, Columbus, OH.
  5. The Incredible Machine (1992) Poole RM led.), National Geographic Society, Washington, DC.
  6. Personal communications with Dr. Laurence Young and Dr. Charles Oman (August 1994), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
For the section describing the space flight results and as influence for numerous figures and tables:
  1. Churchland P.S. (1986). Neurophilosophy Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain. The MIT Press, London, England.
  2. Young L.R. (1984). Handbook of Physiology - The Nervous System. Vol. 3, Part 2, Oxford University Press, Inc.
  3. Young L.R., Oman C.M., Merfeld D., Watt D., Roy S. DeLuca C, Balkwill D., Christie J. Groleau N. Jackson D.K., Law G. Modestino S. Mayer W (1993). Spatial orientation and posture during and following weightlessness: human experiments on Spacelab Life Sciences 1. J. Vest. Res..
  4. Young L.R. (1993). Final Report for E072: Vestibular Experiments in Spacelab Life Sciences 1. MIT Man-Vehicle Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  5. Spacelab Life Sciences 1: 180-day Preliminary Results (1991). NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.
  6. Oman, C.M. and Balkwill, M.D. (1993).  Horizontal angular VOR, nystagmus dumping, and sentation duration in Spacelab SLS-1 crew members. Journal of Vestibular Research, Vol 3, pp. 315-330.
  7. Oman, C.M., Lichtenberg, B.K., Money, K.E. & McCoy, R.K. "MIT/Canadian vestibular experiments on the Spacelab-1 mission: 4. Space motion sickness: symptoms, stimuli, and predictability", Experimental Brain Research. 64: 316-334, 1986.
  8. Oman, C.M. & Shubentsov, I.  "Space sickness symptom severity correlates with average head acceleration", in Mechanisms and Control of Emesis, eds., Bianchi, A.L., Grelot, L., Miller, A.D., & Kink, G.L., Colloque INSERM/John Libbey Eurotext Ltd. 233: 185-194, 1992.  Presented at the conference:  New vistas on mechanisms and control of emesis, Marseille, France, September 4-7, 1992.

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