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Lack of behavioral effects in non-human primates after exposure to ultrawideband electromagnetic radiation in the microwave frequency range.
Sherry CJ, Blick DW, Walters TJ, Brown GC, Murphy MR · 1995
View Original AbstractMonkeys showed no immediate behavioral changes after extremely high EMF exposure, but this doesn't address long-term or cellular effects.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed monkeys to extremely high-intensity ultrawideband electromagnetic radiation (250,000 volts per meter) for 2 minutes and tested their ability to perform a balance task requiring precise motor control. The monkeys showed no changes in their performance immediately after exposure. This suggests that even very intense short-term EMF exposure may not cause immediate behavioral disruption in primates.
Study Details
The effect of acute exposure to ultrawideband (UWB) electromagnetic radiation on the Primate Equilibrium Platform (PEP) task, where the monkey's task is to manipulate a joystick control to compensate for the random perturbations in the pitch plane that are generated by a computer at unpredictable intervals, was examined.
The duration of the UWB exposure was 2 min at a pulse repetition rate of 60 Hz (total of 7200 pulses...
The exposure to UWB electromagnetic radiation had no effect on PEP performance when tested immediate...
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@article{cj_1995_lack_of_behavioral_effects_3393,
author = {Sherry CJ and Blick DW and Walters TJ and Brown GC and Murphy MR},
title = {Lack of behavioral effects in non-human primates after exposure to ultrawideband electromagnetic radiation in the microwave frequency range.},
year = {1995},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7597150/},
}