Effects of 2G and 3G mobile phones on performance and electrophysiology in adolescents, young adults and older adults

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2203-2216

  Leung, S ^a,b,c,e   Croft, R J ^b,c   McKenzie, R J ^a,c   Iskra, S ^a,c   Silber, B ^a   Cooper, N R ^d   O'Neill, B ^a   Cropley, V ^a   Diaz Trujillo, A ^a   Hamblin, D ^a,c   Simpson, D ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute exposure; Adolescents; Cognitive processing; EEG; Elderly; GSM900; Sensory processing; W CDMA

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; CELLULAR PHONE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053198147     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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