Aerospace medicine and human performance

Expanding Ketamine Application for Treatment of Acute Suicidality in Long-Duration Spaceflight.

Aerospace medicine and human performance June 1, 2025 Craig J Kutz, Amit M Mistry, Charles H Dukes

The transition to exploration missions places a heightened risk on behavioral health in spaceflight. Although serious psychiatric emergencies during spaceflight have been rare, longer duration missions increase the possibility of emergence in latent mental health disorders due to genetic predisposition, increased autonomy, isolation, helplessness, loss of family member, or catastrophic events....