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No effect on cognitive function from daily mobile phone use.

No Effects Found

Besset A, Espa F, Dauvilliers Y, Billiard M, de Seze R. · 2005

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Daily mobile phone use for 2 hours showed no cognitive impairment effects when tested after a 13-hour rest period.

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French researchers tested whether daily mobile phone use affects cognitive function by having 55 people use phones for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week for nearly a month. They found no measurable effects on memory, attention, information processing, or executive function compared to a control group using inactive phones. This suggests that typical daily phone use doesn't immediately impair cognitive performance, at least when tested after a 13-hour rest period.

Study Details

This study investigated the effects of daily exposure to GSM 900 type MP on cognitive function.

Fifty-five subjects (27 male and 28 female) were divided into two groups: a group with MP switched o...

Our results indicate that daily MP use has no effect on cognitive function after a 13-h rest period.

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Besset A, Espa F, Dauvilliers Y, Billiard M, de Seze R. (2005). No effect on cognitive function from daily mobile phone use. Bioelectromagnetics. 26(2):102-108, 2005.
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@article{a_2005_no_effect_on_cognitive_2953,
  author = {Besset A and Espa F and Dauvilliers Y and Billiard M and de Seze R.},
  title = {No effect on cognitive function from daily mobile phone use.},
  year = {2005},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15672372/},
}

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French researchers tested whether daily mobile phone use affects cognitive function by having 55 people use phones for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week for nearly a month. They found no measurable effects on memory, attention, information processing, or executive function compared to a control group using inactive phones. This suggests that typical daily phone use doesn't immediately impair cognitive performance, at least when tested after a 13-hour rest period.