Sleep under exposure to high-frequency electromagnetic fields

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-107

  Mann, Klaus ^a   Röschke, Joachim ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classical sleep analysis; High frequency electromagnetic fields; Microwaves; Mobile telephones; Non thermal effects; Sleep disturbances; Spectral analysis of sleep EEG

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; DATA BASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH HAZARD; HEATING; HIGH FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER;

EID: 11144358460     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1087-0792(03)00004-2     Document Type: Article

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