Effects of high frequency Electromagnetic Field (EMF) emitted by mobile phones on the human motor cortex

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 553-561

  Inomata Terada, Satomi ^a   Okabe, Shingo ^a   Arai, Noritoshi ^a   Hanajima, Ritsuko ^a   Terao, Yasuo ^a   Frubayashi, Toshiaki ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conduction block; Hot bath effect; Mobile phone; Motor evoked potential (MEP); Multiple sclerosis; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; NEURONS;

CONDUCTION BLOCK; HOT BATH EFFECT; HUMAN MOTOR; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS; MOTOR-CORTEX; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SINGLE PULSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPINAL NERVE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34548541310     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20318     Document Type: Article

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