Human brain wave activity during exposure to radiofrequency field emissions from mobile phones

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 162-167

  D'Costa, H ^a   Trueman, G ^b   Tang, L ^b   Abdel Rahman, U ^b   Abdel Rahman, W ^b   Ong, K ^b   Cosic, I ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain waves; EEG; Electromagnetic field (EMF); Mobile phone; Radiofrequency (RF)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELEPHONE SETS;

BRAIN WAVES; MOBILE PHONES; RADIOFREQUENCY FIELD EMISSIONS;

BRAIN;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1142279542     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03179176     Document Type: Article

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