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Does acute exposure to the electromagnetic field emitted by a mobile phone influence visual evoked potentials?
Urban, P, Lukas, E, Roth, Z · 1998
View Original AbstractFive minutes of mobile phone exposure showed no immediate brain activity changes in this small 1998 study.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed 20 healthy volunteers to electromagnetic fields from a Motorola mobile phone for 5 minutes and measured visual evoked potentials (electrical brain responses to visual stimuli) to see if phone radiation affected brain function. They found no changes in brain activity after the exposure. This small pilot study suggests short-term mobile phone use may not immediately disrupt this particular aspect of brain function.
Study Details
To search for a potential negative influence on the central nervous system (CNS) of the electromagnetic field emitted by a mobile phone, the authors performed a pilot experimental study of the influence of a single short acute exposure to the GSM mobile phone Motorola 8700, using visual evoked potentials (VEP) examination as an electrophysiological marker of CNS dysfunction.
The study group consisted of 20 healthy volunteers. The duration of exposure was 5 minutes. The outp...
No statistically significant influence of the above-described exposure to the electromagnetic field ...
Show BibTeX
@article{urban_1998_does_acute_exposure_to_3458,
author = {Urban and P and Lukas and E and Roth and Z},
title = {Does acute exposure to the electromagnetic field emitted by a mobile phone influence visual evoked potentials?},
year = {1998},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9919379/},
}