No increased sensitivity in brain activity of adolescents exposed to mobile phone-like emissions

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1303-1308

  Loughran, S P ^a   Benz, D C ^a   Schmid, M R ^a,b   Murbach, M ^b,c   Kuster, N ^b,c   Achermann, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOCIETY IT IS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Children; Cognition; EEG; Mobile phone; Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WAKEFULNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; CELLULAR PHONE; CHILD; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RADIO WAVES; REFERENCE VALUES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84878911911     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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