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Effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by GSM 900 and WCDMA mobile phones on cognitive function in young male subjects.
Sauter C, Dorn H, Bahr A, Hansen ML, Peter A, Bajbouj M, Danker-Hopfe H · 2011
View Original AbstractExtended mobile phone radiation exposure showed no measurable cognitive effects in this controlled study of young men.
Plain English Summary
German researchers exposed 30 young men to mobile phone signals (GSM 900 and WCDMA) for over 7 hours to test effects on cognitive function including attention and working memory. While some minor changes appeared in vigilance tests, these effects disappeared when researchers properly accounted for statistical testing and time-of-day variations. The study found no evidence that extended mobile phone radiation exposure impairs cognitive performance.
Study Details
Results of studies on the possible effects of electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones on cognitive functions are contradictory, therefore, possible effects of long-term (7 h 15 min) electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure to handset-like signals of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) 900 and Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) on attention and working memory were studied.
The sample comprised 30 healthy male subjects (mean ± SD: 25.3 ± 2.6 years), who were tested on nine...
Univariate comparisons revealed significant changes when subjects were exposed to GSM 900 compared t...
The results of the present study do not provide any evidence of an EMF effect on human cognition, but they underline the necessity to control for time of day.
Show BibTeX
@article{c_2011_effects_of_exposure_to_3366,
author = {Sauter C and Dorn H and Bahr A and Hansen ML and Peter A and Bajbouj M and Danker-Hopfe H},
title = {Effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by GSM 900 and WCDMA mobile phones on cognitive function in young male subjects.},
year = {2011},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21365662/},
}