Recent Publications

Spaceflight & Extreme Environments

• A second space age spanning omics, platforms and medicine across orbits (2024)

• Molecular and physiological changes in the SpaceX Inspiration4 civilian crew (2024)

• Transient gray matter decline during Antarctic isolation: Roles of sleep, exercise, and cognition (2025)

Public Health & Occupational Safety

• Objective alertness, rather than sleep duration, is associated with burnout and depression: A national survey of Japanese physicians (2025)

• Risk for Suicide and Homicide Peaks at Night: Findings From the National Violent Death Reporting System, 35 States, 2003-2017 (2024)

• Transportation Noise Pollution and Cardiovascular Health (2024)

General Science

• Effects of acute sleep deprivation and recovery sleep on cognitive performance in depressed individuals (2025)

• Considerations for the Use of Commercial Wearables to Assess Sleep and Rest-Activity Rhythms (2025)

• Carnosine supplementation improves cognitive outcomes in younger participants of the NEAT trial (2025)

• Morning resting hypothalamus-dorsal striatum connectivity predicts individual differences in diurnal sleepiness accumulation (2024)

Select Publications from the Archives

• The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight (2019)

• Development and Validation of the Cognition Test Battery for Spaceflight (2016)

• Auditory and non-auditory effects of noise on health (2014)

• Maximizing Sensitivity of the Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT) to Sleep Loss (2011)