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Effects of microwaves emitted by cellular phones on human slow brain potentials.

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Freude, G, Ullsperger, P, Eggert ,S, Ruppe, I · 1998

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EMF exposure caused a significant decrease of slow brain potentials at central and temporo-parieto-occipital regions but not at the frontal region, and did not affect the Bereitschaftspotential in the finger movement task.

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Researchers studied the influence of electromagnetic fields emitted by cellular phones on preparatory slow brain potentials in healthy male subjects using two experimental tasks. Both tasks were performed with and without EMF exposure in counterbalanced order. Subjects' performance did not differ between exposure conditions, but EMF exposure significantly decreased slow brain potentials at central and temporo-parieto-occipital regions during the visual monitoring task and did not affect the Bereitschaftspotential in the finger movement task.

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The influence of electromagnetic fields (EMF) emitted by cellular phones on preparatory slow brain potentials (SP) was studied in two different experimental tasks

In the first, healthy male human subjects had to perform simple self-paced finger movements to elici...

Whereas subjects' performance did not differ between the EMF exposure conditions, SP parameters were...

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Freude, G, Ullsperger, P, Eggert ,S, Ruppe, I (1998). Effects of microwaves emitted by cellular phones on human slow brain potentials. Bioelectromagnetics 19(6):384-387, 1998.
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@article{freude_1998_effects_of_microwaves_emitted_2085,
  author = {Freude and G and Ullsperger and P and Eggert  andS and Ruppe and I},
  title = {Effects of microwaves emitted by cellular phones on human slow brain potentials.},
  year = {1998},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9738529/},
}
PubMed: 9738529

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The study used a simple self-paced finger movement task to elicit a Bereitschaftspotential and a complex visual monitoring task.
Both tasks were performed with and without EMF exposure in counterbalanced order.
Subjects' performance did not differ between the EMF exposure conditions.