The sensitivity of human event-related potentials and reaction time to mobile phone emitted electromagnetic fields

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 265-273

  Hamblin, D L ^a,b   Croft, R J ^a,b   Wood, A W ^a,b   Stough, C ^a   Spong, J ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (ACRBR)   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electroencephalogram; Electrophysiology; GSM900; N100; P300; RF

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS;

'CURRENT; AUDITORY STIMULI; AUDITORY TASKS; CROSSOVER DESIGN; EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS; GSM-900; NEURAL ACTIVITY; P300 LATENCIES; RF; VISUAL MEASURES;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33646242237     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20209     Document Type: Article

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