Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
The effects of mobile-phone electromagnetic fields on brain electrical activity: a critical analysis of the literature
Marino AA, Carrubba S · 2009
View Original AbstractIndustry funding of 87% of mobile phone brain studies has manufactured doubt rather than answered whether phones affect brain activity.
Plain English Summary
Researchers analyzed 55 studies examining whether mobile phone radiation affects brain electrical activity measured by EEG. They found that 87% of these studies were funded by the wireless industry, and that both positive and negative studies had serious methodological flaws that prevented reliable conclusions. The authors argue that this systematic doubt about EMF effects was manufactured by industry funding rather than reflecting genuine scientific uncertainty.
Study Details
We analyzed the reports in which human brain electrical activity was compared between the presence and absence of radio-frequency and low-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from mobile phones, or between pre- and post-exposure to the EMFs.
Of 55 reports, 37 claimed and 18 denied an EMF-induced effect on either the baseline electro encepha...
The positive reports did not adequately consider the family-wise error rate, the presence of spike a...
The crucial scientific question of the pathophysiology of mobile-phone EMFs as reflected in measurements of brain electrical activity remains unanswered, and essentially unaddressed.
Show BibTeX
@article{aa_2009_the_effects_of_mobilephone_3230,
author = {Marino AA and Carrubba S},
title = {The effects of mobile-phone electromagnetic fields on brain electrical activity: a critical analysis of the literature},
year = {2009},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20001702/},
}