Mobile phone emission modulates event-related desynchronization of alpha rhythms and cognitive-motor performance in healthy humans

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-128

  Vecchio, Fabrizio ^a   Buffo, Paola ^b   Sergio, Silvia ^b   Iacoviello, Daniela ^b   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^c,d   Babiloni, Claudio ^d,e  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^d Casa di Cura San Raffele   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpha band; EEG; Event related desynchronization (ERD); Go no go task; Mobile phone emission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; CELLULAR PHONE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84655163464     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.06.019     Document Type: Article

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