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"Mobile phones do affect brain function"
Australia Created: 28 Apr 2006
"Scientists at Swinburne University of Technology's Brain Sciences Institute in Melbourne studied the performances of 120 healthy volunteers on a series of psychological tests during half an hour of exposure to mobile phone emissions. ...The study showed evidence of slower response times for participants undertaking simple reactions and more complex reactions, such as choosing a response when there is more than one alternative," Professor Stough said. "Mobile phones do seem to affect brain function. They seem to be fairly small effects but nevertheless, something's happening."
Prof Stough said research by the institute suggested the effects of mobile phone radiation on the brain was cumulative. "People, for instance, who use the mobile phone a lot seem to have more of an impairment than people who are more naive users," he said in an interview.
As for any use of mobile phones in cars – hands free or not – Prof Stough is against it. "I think they should be banned from cars," he said.

http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,18947024%255E1702,00.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1621201.htm
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=444

The Abstract
http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16616941&itool=pubmed_DocSum

Neuropsychological sequelae of digital mobile phone exposure in humans
Vanessa Keetleya, Andrew W. Wooda, b, Jo Sponga and Con Stougha, ,

a:Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic. 3122, Australia
b:Centre for Biomedical Instrumentation, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic. 3122, Australia

Received 6 October 2005; revised 14 February 2006; accepted 1 March 2006. Available online 17 April 2006.

Abstract
The effect of electromagnetic fields from digital mobile phones (DMP) on cognitive functioning is an area receiving increased attention. This study compares the performance of 120 volunteers on 8 neuropsychological tests during real or sham exposure to a DMP set to maximum permissible radiofrequency power output. When results were adjusted for known covariates (gender, age, or education), several alterations at significance levels of p < 0.05 were obtained. Of these, simple and choice reaction times (CRT) showed strong evidence of impairment. Further, performance on the Trail Making Task (TMT) improved, supporting the hypothesis that DMP radiofrequency emissions improve the speed of processing of information held in working memory.
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