Mobile phone 'talk-mode' signal delays EEG-determined sleep onset

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 421, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-86

  Hung, Ching Sui ^a   Anderson, Clare ^a   Horne, James A ^a   McEvoy, Patrick ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EEG; Microwaves; Mobile phone; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SOMNOLENCE; SPECTROSCOPY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 34250209478     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.05.027     Document Type: Article

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