Rapporteur report: Weak field interactions in the central nervous system

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 357-361

  Saunders, Richard D ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELD; EVOKED RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; TISSUE INTERACTION; VISION; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0346958380     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006372     Document Type: Review

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