Does exposure to GSM 900 MHz mobile phone radiation affect short-term memory of elementary school students?

Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 121-124

  Movvahedi, M M ^a   Tavakkoli Golpayegani, A ^b   Mortazavi, S A R ^c   Haghani, M ^d   Razi, Z ^a   Shojaie Fard, M B ^a   Zare, M ^d   Mina, E ^d   Mansourabadi, L ^d   Nazari Jahromi, N ^a   Safari, A ^a   Shokrpour, N ^d   Mortazavi, S M J ^a,e  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Standard Research Institute   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Children; cognitive responses; elementary school students; global system for mobile communication; mobile phone; radiofrequency; reaction time; short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL REACTION TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

EID: 84925442074     PISSN: 18171745     EISSN: 19983948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1745.139300     Document Type: Article

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