UMTS base station-like exposure, well-being, and cognitive performance

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1270-1275

  Regel, Sabine J ^a   Negovetic, Sonja ^a   Röösli, Martin ^b   Berdiñas, Veronica ^c   Schuderer, Jürgen ^c   Huss, Anke ^b   Lott, Urs ^c   Kuster, Niels ^c   Achermann, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

Base station; Cognitive function; Electromagnetic hypersensitivity; Human exposure; Mobile phones; RF EMF

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN TISSUE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNCERTAINTY; VARIANCE; WELLBEING;

ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; COGNITION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIO WAVES; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 33746872239     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8934     Document Type: Article

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