Effects of cell phone radiofrequency signal exposure on brain glucose metabolism

JAMA

Volumn 305, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 808-813

  Volkow, Nora D ^a,b   Tomasi, Dardo ^b   Wang, Gene Jack ^c   Vaska, Paul ^c   Fowler, Joanna S ^c   Telang, Frank ^b   Alexoff, Dave ^c   Logan, Jean ^c   Wong, Christopher ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; EAR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJECTION; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 79951978171     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.186     Document Type: Article

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