PTS performance by flight- and control-group macaques
Washburn, D.A.; Rumbaugh, D.M.; Richardson, W.K.; Gulledge, J.P.; Shlyk, G.G.; Vasilieva, O.N.; Rumbaugh, D.M.
Journal of Gravitational Physiology a Journal of the International Society for Gravitational Physiology 7(1): S89-S93
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 1077-9248 PMID: 11543471 Document Number: 516416
A total of 25 young monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were trained with the Psychomotor Test System, a package of software tasks and computer hardware developed for spaceflight research with nonhuman primates. Two flight monkeys and two control monkeys were selected from this pool and performed a psychomotor task before and after the Bion 11 flight or a ground-control period. Monkeys from both groups showed significant disruption in performance after the 14-day flight or simulation (plus one anesthetized day of biopsies and other tests), and this disruption appeared to be magnified for the flight animal.