Mobile phone exposure and spatial memory

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-65

  Wiholm, Clairy ^a,b   Lowden, Arne ^c   Kuster, Niels ^d   Hillert, Lena ^e   Arnetz, Bengt B ^a,b   Åkerstedt, Torbjörn ^c   Moffat, Scott D ^a,f  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Provocation study; Radiofrequency fields; Virtual morris water task

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; MOBILE PHONE USE; PROVOCATION STUDY; RADIO FREQUENCY FIELDS; RADIO-FREQUENCY EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCIES; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; VIRTUAL MORRIS WATER TASK; WORKING MEMORY;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 58649124088     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: 1521186X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.20443     Document Type: Article

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