Effects of short- and long-term pulsed radiofrequency electromagnetic fields on night sleep and cognitive functions in healthy subjects

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 316-325

  Fritzer, Gunther ^a   Göder, Robert ^a   Friege, Lars ^a   Wachter, Jessica ^a   Hansen, Volkert ^b   Hinze Selch, Dunja ^a   Aldenhoff, Josef B ^a  

^a Christian Albrechts University Kiel   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Correlation dimension; Electroencephalography; Mobile telephony; Power spectra

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; POWER SPECTRUM; SLEEP RESEARCH;

COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; CORRELATION DIMENSIONS; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; LEARNING AND MEMORY; MOBILE TELEPHONES; MOBILE TELEPHONY; POWER-SPECTRA; RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; REM SLEEP;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 34249054443     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20301     Document Type: Article

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