Pulsed radio-frequency electromagnetic fields: Dose-dependent effects on sleep, the sleep EEG and cognitive performance

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-258

  Regel, Sabine J ^a   Tinguely, Gilberte ^a   Schuderer, Jürgen ^b   Adam, Martin ^a   Kuster, Niels ^b   Landolt, Hans Peter ^a   Achermann, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cellular phone; Dose response relationship; Electroencephalogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOBILE PHONE; NIGHT SLEEP; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP SPINDLE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RADIO WAVES; SLEEP STAGES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 34548025817     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2007.00603.x     Document Type: Article

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