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Does the Brain Detect 3G Mobile Phone Radiation Peaks? An Explorative In-Depth Analysis of an Experimental Study

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  • Suzanne Roggeveen
  • Jim van Os
  • Richel Lousberg

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This study aimed to investigate whether third generation mobile phone radiation peaks result in event related potentials. Thirty-one healthy females participated. In this single-blind, cross-over design, a 15 minute mobile phone exposure was compared to two 15 minute sham phone conditions, one preceding and one following the exposure condition. Each participant was measured on two separate days, where mobile phone placement was varied between the ear and heart. EEG activity and radiofrequency radiation were recorded jointly. Epochs of 1200ms, starting 200ms before and lasting until 1000ms after the onset of a radiation peak, were extracted from the exposure condition. Control epochs were randomly selected from the two sham phone conditions. The main a-priori hypothesis to be tested concerned an increase of the area in the 240-500ms post-stimulus interval, in the exposure session with ear-placement. Using multilevel regression analyses the placement*exposure interaction effect was significant for the frontal and central cortical regions, indicating that only in the mobile phone exposure with ear-placement an enlarged cortical reactivity was found. Post-hoc analyses based on visual inspection of the ERPs showed a second significantly increased area between 500-1000ms post-stimulus for almost every EEG location measured. It was concluded that, when a dialing mobile phone is placed on the ear, its radiation, although unconsciously, is electrically detected by the brain. The question of whether or not this cortical reactivity results in a negative health outcome has to be answered in future longitudinal experiments.

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  • Suzanne Roggeveen & Jim van Os & Richel Lousberg, 2015. "Does the Brain Detect 3G Mobile Phone Radiation Peaks? An Explorative In-Depth Analysis of an Experimental Study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(5), pages 1-11, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0125390
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125390
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    1. Catherine J Vossen & Helen G M Vossen & Marco A E Marcus & Jim van Os & Richel Lousberg, 2013. "Introducing the Event Related Fixed Interval Area (ERFIA) Multilevel Technique: a Method to Analyze the Complete Epoch of Event-Related Potentials at Single Trial Level," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(11), pages 1-1, November.
    2. Suzanne Roggeveen & Jim van Os & Wolfgang Viechtbauer & Richel Lousberg, 2015. "EEG Changes Due to Experimentally Induced 3G Mobile Phone Radiation," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(6), pages 1-13, June.
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