Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Effects of 1.8 GHz Radiofrequency Fields on the Emotional Behavior and Spatial Memory of Adolescent Mice.
Zhang JP, Zhang KY, Guo L, Chen QL, Gao P, Wang T, Li J, Guo GZ, Ding GR. · 2017
View Original AbstractCell phone frequency radiation increased anxiety behavior in adolescent mice while reducing calming brain chemicals, suggesting developmental vulnerability.
Plain English Summary
Chinese researchers exposed adolescent mice to cell phone frequency radiation (1.8 GHz) for four weeks and tested their behavior and brain function. While the mice showed no changes in depression, memory, or brain structure, they did display increased anxiety-like behavior and had lower levels of key brain chemicals that regulate mood and brain activity. This suggests that radiofrequency exposure during adolescence may specifically affect anxiety responses in the developing brain.
Study Details
In this study, we investigated the effects of 4-week exposure to a 1.8 GHz RF field on the emotional behavior and spatial memory of adolescent male mice.
Anxiety-like behavior was evaluated by open field test (OFT) and elevated plus maze (EPM) test, whil...
It was found that the depression-like behavior, spatial memory ability and histology of the brain di...
These data suggested that RF exposure under these conditions do not affect the depression-like behavior, spatial memory and brain histology in adolescent male mice, but it may however increase the level of anxiety, and GABA and Asp were probably involved in this effect.
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@article{jp_2017_effects_of_18_ghz_3504,
author = {Zhang JP and Zhang KY and Guo L and Chen QL and Gao P and Wang T and Li J and Guo GZ and Ding GR.},
title = {Effects of 1.8 GHz Radiofrequency Fields on the Emotional Behavior and Spatial Memory of Adolescent Mice.},
year = {2017},
url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5707983/},
}