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Human sleep EEG under the influence of pulsed radio frequency electromagnetic fields. results from polysomnographies using submaximal high power flux densities.

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Wagner P, Roschke J, Mann K, Fell J, Hiller W, Frank C, Grozinger M · 2000

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High-intensity cell phone radiation showed no sleep effects, contradicting studies at lower exposure levels typical of actual phone use.

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German researchers exposed 20 healthy men to extremely high levels of cell phone radiation (100 times stronger than typical phone use) during sleep to see if it affected their brain waves and sleep patterns. Despite using this intense exposure level, they found no measurable changes to sleep quality or brain activity during sleep. This contradicts earlier studies that found sleep disruption at much lower radiation levels.

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The aim of this study is to investigate Human sleep EEG under the influence of pulsed radio frequency electromagnetic fields. results from polysomnographies using submaximal high power flux densities.

For the present study, we applied a submaximal power flux density of 50 W/m(2). To investigate putat...

The results showed no significant effect of the field application either on conventional sleep param...

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Wagner P, Roschke J, Mann K, Fell J, Hiller W, Frank C, Grozinger M (2000). Human sleep EEG under the influence of pulsed radio frequency electromagnetic fields. results from polysomnographies using submaximal high power flux densities. Neuropsychobiology 42(4):207-212, 2000.
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@article{p_2000_human_sleep_eeg_under_3480,
  author = {Wagner P and Roschke J and Mann K and Fell J and Hiller W and Frank C and Grozinger M},
  title = {Human sleep EEG under the influence of pulsed radio frequency electromagnetic fields. results from polysomnographies using submaximal high power flux densities.},
  year = {2000},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11096337/},
}

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German researchers exposed 20 healthy men to extremely high levels of cell phone radiation (100 times stronger than typical phone use) during sleep to see if it affected their brain waves and sleep patterns. Despite using this intense exposure level, they found no measurable changes to sleep quality or brain activity during sleep. This contradicts earlier studies that found sleep disruption at much lower radiation levels.