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Effects of thirty minutes mobile phone use on the human sensory cortex.
Yuasa K, Arai N, Okabe S, Tarusawa Y, Nojima T, Hanajima R, Terao Y, Ugawa Y. · 2006
View Original AbstractThirty minutes of mobile phone use showed no immediate effects on brain sensory processing in this small study.
Plain English Summary
Japanese researchers tested whether 30 minutes of mobile phone use affects brain activity by measuring electrical signals in the sensory cortex (the brain region that processes touch and sensation) in 12 healthy volunteers. They found no changes in brain activity after phone exposure compared to fake exposure. This suggests that short-term mobile phone use doesn't immediately alter how your brain processes sensory information.
Study Details
To investigate whether the pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic field (pulsed EMF) emitted by a mobile phone for 30 min has short-term effects on human somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs).
We studied somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) in 12 normal volunteers before and after exposure ...
Neither SEPs nor their recovery function was affected by exposure to pulsed EMF emitted by a mobile ...
As far as the present methods are concerned, 30 min mobile phone use has no short-term effects on the human sensory cortex.
Show BibTeX
@article{k_2006_effects_of_thirty_minutes_3500,
author = {Yuasa K and Arai N and Okabe S and Tarusawa Y and Nojima T and Hanajima R and Terao Y and Ugawa Y.},
title = {Effects of thirty minutes mobile phone use on the human sensory cortex.},
year = {2006},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1388245705005092},
}