Electromagnetic fields, such as those from mobile phones, alter regional cerebral blood flow and sleep and waking EEG

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 289-295

  Huber, R ^a   Treyer, V ^b   Borbely A A ^a   Schuderer, J ^c   Gottselig, J M ^a   Landolt, H P ^a   Werth, E ^a   Berthold, T ^b   Kuster, N ^c   Buck, A ^b   Achermann, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOCIETY IT IS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cellular phone; Electroencephalogram; Electromagnetic fields; Modulation; Positron emission tomography; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; MALE; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP SPINDLE; SLEEP STAGE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; BRAIN; CELLULAR PHONE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MALE; SLEEP STAGES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 18744391938     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2869.2002.00314.x     Document Type: Article

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