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Cognitive and physiological responses in humans exposed to a TETRA base station signal in relation to perceived electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
Wallace D, Eltiti S, Ridgewell A, Garner K, Russo R, Sepulveda F, Walker S, Quinlan T, Dudley S, Maung S, Deeble R, Fox E · 2012
View Original AbstractTETRA emergency radio signals showed no immediate effects on thinking or physical responses, even in electromagnetically sensitive individuals.
Plain English Summary
Researchers tested whether exposure to TETRA radio signals (used by emergency services) affects thinking ability and physical responses in people who consider themselves sensitive to electromagnetic fields. After exposing 183 participants to real and fake TETRA signals in a controlled study, they found no differences in memory, attention, heart rate, or other measured responses. This adds to evidence that radio frequency exposure at these levels doesn't produce detectable immediate effects on cognitive function or basic physiological responses.
Study Details
The present study is the first to examine whether acute exposure to a TETRA base station signal has an impact on cognitive functioning and physiological responses.
Participants were exposed to a 420 MHz TETRA signal at a power flux density of 10 mW/m2 as well as s...
We observed no differences in cognitive performance between sham and TETRA exposure in either group;...
These findings are similar to previous double‐blind studies with other mobile phone signals (900–2100 MHz), which could not establish any clear evidence that mobile phone signals affect health or cognitive function.
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@article{d_2012_cognitive_and_physiological_responses_2818,
author = {Wallace D and Eltiti S and Ridgewell A and Garner K and Russo R and Sepulveda F and Walker S and Quinlan T and Dudley S and Maung S and Deeble R and Fox E},
title = {Cognitive and physiological responses in humans exposed to a TETRA base station signal in relation to perceived electromagnetic hypersensitivity.},
year = {2012},
doi = {10.1002/bem.20681},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bem.20681},
}