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© Reuters. A worker of Israeli startup Brain.Space makes an EEG enabled helmet. It will be used as part of an experiment to determine the effect of microgravity environments on brain activity. Image

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TEL AVIV, (Reuters) – Israel’s Brain.Space is a startup of four years that studies brain activity and will test its equipment on astronauts next week on a SpaceX Shuttle flight to the International Space Station.

The company announced Monday that three astronauts from Axiom Space, a private space-flight firm, will be using a Brain.Space-enabled helmet.

Four astronauts and four others will be on board the 10 day mission to the station.

We know from experience that microgravity can have an impact on the biological indicators of the body. According to Reuters, Brain.Space chief executive Yair Levy said that it could impact the brain.

He said that data has been continuously collected about heart rate, skin resistance and muscle mass, but no information on brain activity.

Brain.Space will join 30 other experiments in the Rakia Mission, which is a mission to the International Space Station.

The helmet has 460 airbrushes connected to the head and three astronauts, including Israeli Eytan Stubbe, will use it. They will perform various tasks over 20 minutes each day during which data will then be transferred to a space station laptop. One of the tasks is a “visual oddball”, which company claims has proven effective at detecting abnormal brain dynamics.

Brain.Space will use EEG data from both Earth and Space to compare brain activity and see if there are any differences between Earth and Space.

These experiments were necessary since “off-world life” and long-term exploration of space are possible.

Brain.Space also announced that it had raised $8.5million in seed financing. It bills itself as a Brain Infrastructure company. Brain.Space is currently working with Israel’s Ben Gurion University cognitive and brain sciences to turn terabytes worth of data into useful insights.

Levy expressed hope that the space mission could be used as a launchpad for other researchers, institutions and developers of software to make use of its brain-data platform.

Space acts as an accelerator. Levy cited ADHD as one example of how the idea was to revolutionize and make brain activity apps and products possible.

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