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in the fall of 1981 the American Medical Research Expedition to Everest completed a series of physiological and psychological studies on mountaineers ascending to the summit of Mount Everest. This expedition afforded the unique opportunity to observe the consequences of extreme, sustained hypoxia on human cerebral function. The goal was to ascertain whether exposing healthy acclimatized individuals to extreme high altitude causes long-term alterations in cognition or behavior indicative of hypoxic brain dysfunction.
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Townes, B.D., Hornbein, T.F., Schoene, R.B., Sarnquist, F.H., Grant, I. (1984). Human Cerebral Function at Extreme Altitude. In: West, J.B., Lahiri, S. (eds) High Altitude and Man. Clinical Physiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7525-5_4
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