Mobile-phone pulse triggers evoked potentials
Carrubba S, Frilot C 2nd, Chesson AL Jr, Marino AA · 2010
View Original AbstractMobile phone pulses trigger brain responses in 90% of users, suggesting chronic neurological effects during ordinary phone use.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed 20 volunteers to mobile phone pulses (217 Hz frequency) while monitoring brain activity. Advanced analysis detected measurable brain responses in 90% of participants, suggesting mobile phones create detectable changes in brain function that standard testing methods miss.
Why This Matters
This study reveals something remarkable: your brain is actually responding to mobile phone signals in ways that standard medical tests can't detect. The 217 Hz pulsing frequency that all mobile phones emit triggered measurable brain responses in 9 out of 10 people tested. What makes this particularly significant is that these evoked potentials only showed up using sophisticated nonlinear analysis methods, not the conventional time-averaging techniques typically used in medical settings. This means that countless previous studies may have missed these neurological responses entirely. The researchers' conclusion is sobering: if your brain is responding to phone signals every time you make a call, and these responses are happening chronically over years of use, this could explain why so many mobile phone users report symptoms like headaches, sleep disturbances, and concentration problems. The science demonstrates that your nervous system is not ignoring EMF exposure as regulators claim.
Exposure Details
- Magnetic Field
- 0.003 mG
- Electric Field
- 100 V/m
- Source/Device
- 217 Hz
Exposure Context
This study used 100 V/m for electric fields:
- 333.3x above the Building Biology guideline of 0.3 V/m
This study used 0.003 mG for magnetic fields:
- 150x above the Building Biology guideline of 0.2 mG
- 30x above the BioInitiative Report recommendation of 1 mG
Building Biology guidelines are practitioner-based limits from real-world assessments. BioInitiative Report recommendations are based on peer-reviewed science. Check Your Exposure to compare your own measurements.
Where This Falls on the Concern Scale
Study Details
We hypothesized that the low-frequency pulses produced by mobile phones (217 Hz) were detected by sensory transduction, as evidenced by the ability of the pulses to trigger evoked potentials (EPs).
Electroencephalograms (EEGs) were recorded from six standard locations in 20 volunteers and analyzed...
Evoked potentials having the expected latency were found in 90% of the volunteers, as assessed using...
The results implied that mobile-phones trigger EP at the rate of 217 Hz during ordinary phone use. Chronic production of the changes in brain activity might be pertinent to the reports of health hazards among mobile-phone users.
Show BibTeX
@article{s_2010_mobilephone_pulse_triggers_evoked_225,
author = {Carrubba S and Frilot C 2nd and Chesson AL Jr and Marino AA},
title = {Mobile-phone pulse triggers evoked potentials},
year = {2010},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304394009015596},
}