Pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic field affects human sleep and sleep electroencephalogram

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 207-210

  Borbély, Alexander A ^a   Huber, Reto ^a   Graf, Thomas ^a   Fuchs, Barbara ^a   Gallmann, Eva ^a   Achermann, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Global system for mobile communication; Mobile phones; Non REM sleep; Sleep spindles; Specific absorption rate; Spectral analysis; Waking after sleep onset

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MALE; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 0344117803     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00770-3     Document Type: Article

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