Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Short GSM mobile phone exposure does not alter human auditory brainstem response.
Stefanics G, Kellenyi L, Molnar F, Kubinyi G, Thuroczy G, Hernadi I · 2007
View Original AbstractTen minutes of cell phone radiation showed no immediate effects on brainstem hearing responses in healthy adults.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed 30 healthy young adults to 10 minutes of 900 MHz radiation from a Nokia cell phone and measured their auditory brainstem response (ABR), which tracks how sound signals travel from the ear to the brain. They found no immediate changes in ABR timing compared to sham exposure. This suggests short-term cell phone use doesn't immediately disrupt the basic hearing pathway in the brainstem.
Study Details
There are about 1.6 billion GSM cellular phones in use throughout the world today. Numerous papers have reported various biological effects in humans exposed to electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones. The aim of the present study was to advance our understanding of potential adverse effects of the GSM mobile phones on the human hearing system.
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Paired sample t-test was conducted for statistical analysis. Results revealed no significant differe...
The present results suggest that, in our experimental conditions, a single 10 minute exposure of 900 MHz EMF emitted by a commercial mobile phone does not produce measurable immediate effects in the latency of auditory brainstem waves I, III and V.
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@article{g_2007_short_gsm_mobile_phone_3421,
author = {Stefanics G and Kellenyi L and Molnar F and Kubinyi G and Thuroczy G and Hernadi I},
title = {Short GSM mobile phone exposure does not alter human auditory brainstem response.},
year = {2007},
doi = {10.1186/1471-2458-7-325},
url = {https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-7-325},
}