Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Effects of GSM electromagnetic field on the MEG during an encoding-retrieval task.
Hinrichs H, Heinze HJ. · 2004
View Original AbstractCell phone radiation altered brain wave patterns during memory formation, showing biological effects even when memory performance appeared normal.
Plain English Summary
German researchers tested whether cell phone radiation affects memory by measuring brain activity while people memorized words. They found that GSM 1800 radiation (the type used in European cell phones) altered specific brain wave patterns during memory formation, though participants didn't notice any difference in their actual memory performance. This suggests cell phone radiation can interfere with normal brain processing even when we don't feel any obvious effects.
Study Details
Potential effects of GSM 1800 electromagnetic fields (EMF) on verbal memory encoding were investigated by recording event-related magnetic fields (ERMF) from the brain during subsequent memory retrieval.
Twelve normal subjects participated in the study. After encoding words from a study list presented i...
Exposure to EMF changed an early (350-400 ms) task-specific component of the ERMF indicating an inte...
Adverse health effects cannot be derived from these data.
Show BibTeX
@article{h_2004_effects_of_gsm_electromagnetic_3082,
author = {Hinrichs H and Heinze HJ.},
title = {Effects of GSM electromagnetic field on the MEG during an encoding-retrieval task.},
year = {2004},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15129172/},
}