Acute mobile phones exposure affects frontal cortex hemodynamics as evidenced by functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 903-910

  Curcio, Giuseppe ^a,b   Ferrara, Michele ^a   Limongi, Tania ^a   Tempesta, Daniela ^a   Sante, Gabriele Di ^a   Gennaro, Luigi De ^c   Quaresima, Valentina ^a   Ferrari, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b Casa di Cura S Raffaele   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral circulation; Electromagnetic fields; GSM; Human; Near infrared spectroscopy; Radio frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; SKIN TINGLING; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FRONTAL LOBE; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RADIO WAVES; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549150023     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2009.14     Document Type: Article

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