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Do signals of a hand-held TETRA transmitter affect cognitive performance, well-being, mood or somatic complaints in healthy young men? Results of a randomized double-blind cross-over provocation study.

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Sauter C, Eggert T, Dorn H, Schmid G, Bolz T, Marasanov A, Hansen ML, Peter A, Danker-Hopfe H. · 2015

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Short-term TETRA radio exposure at levels up to 6.0 W/kg showed no negative cognitive effects in healthy men.

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German researchers exposed 30 healthy young men to TETRA radio signals (used by police and emergency services) for 2.5 hours to test effects on thinking, mood, and physical symptoms. They found no negative impacts on cognitive performance or well-being, with some participants actually showing slight improvements in certain memory tasks. The study suggests short-term exposure to TETRA signals doesn't harm mental function in healthy adults.

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To investigate possible acute effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) of two different levels of TETRA hand-held transmitter signals on cognitive function and well-being in healthy young males.

In the present double-blind cross-over study possible effects of short-term (2.5h) EMF exposure of h...

Attention remained unchanged in two out of three tasks. In the working memory significant changes we...

The results of the present study do not indicate a negative impact of a short-term EMF-effect of TETRA on cognitive function and well-being in healthy young men.

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Sauter C, Eggert T, Dorn H, Schmid G, Bolz T, Marasanov A, Hansen ML, Peter A, Danker-Hopfe H. (2015). Do signals of a hand-held TETRA transmitter affect cognitive performance, well-being, mood or somatic complaints in healthy young men? Results of a randomized double-blind cross-over provocation study. Environ Res. 140:85-94, 2015.
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@article{c_2015_do_signals_of_a_3367,
  author = {Sauter C and Eggert T and Dorn H and Schmid G and Bolz T and Marasanov A and Hansen ML and Peter A and Danker-Hopfe H. },
  title = {Do signals of a hand-held TETRA transmitter affect cognitive performance, well-being, mood or somatic complaints in healthy young men? Results of a randomized double-blind cross-over provocation study. },
  year = {2015},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25839715/},
}

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German researchers exposed 30 healthy young men to TETRA radio signals (used by police and emergency services) for 2.5 hours to test effects on thinking, mood, and physical symptoms. They found no negative impacts on cognitive performance or well-being, with some participants actually showing slight improvements in certain memory tasks. The study suggests short-term exposure to TETRA signals doesn't harm mental function in healthy adults.