Lack of Behavioral Effects in Non-Human Primates after Exposure to Ultrawideband Electromagnetic Radiation in the Microwave Frequency Range

Sherry, C. J.; Blick, Dennis W.; Walters, James; Brown, G. Carroll; Murphy, Michael R.

doi:10.2307/3578930

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“…This appears to be true even for very high peak powers and ultra wide band fields [Sherry et al, 1995]. However, there is always the possibility that PFs can produce auditory cues [Lin, 1990], so appropriate masking noise and/or positive control procedures should be part of the experimental design.…”

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Behavioral and cognitive effects of microwave exposure

D'Andrea

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Lorge³

2003

Bioelectromagnetics

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This paper presents an overview of the recent behavioral literature concerning microwave exposure and discusses behavioral effects that have supported past exposure standards. Other effects, which are based on lower levels of exposure, are discussed as well, relative to setting exposure standards. The paper begins with a brief discussion of the ways in which behavioral end points are investigated in the laboratory, together with some of the methodological considerations pertinent to such studies when radio frequency (RF) exposure is involved. It has been pointed out by several sources that exposure to RF radiation can lead to changes in the behavior of humans and laboratory animals that can range from the perceptions of warmth and sound to lethal body temperatures. Behavior of laboratory animals can be perturbed and, under certain other conditions, animals will escape and subsequently avoid RF fields; but they will also work to obtain a burst of RF energy when they are cold. Reports of change of cognitive function (memory and learning) in humans and laboratory animals are in the scientific literature. Mostly, these are thermally mediated effects, but other low level effects are not so easily explained by thermal mechanisms. The phenomenon of behavioral disruption by microwave exposure, an operationally defined rate decrease (or rate increase), has served as the basis for human exposure guidelines since the early 1980s and still appears to be a very sensitive RF bioeffect. Nearly all evidence relates this phenomenon to the generation of heat in the tissues and reinforces the conclusion that behavioral changes observed in RF exposed animals are thermally mediated. Such behavioral alteration has been demonstrated in a variety of animal species and under several different conditions of RF exposure. Thermally based effects can clearly be hazardous to the organism and continue to be the best predictor of hazard for homosapiens. Nevertheless, similar research with man has not been conducted. Although some studies on human perception of RF exist, these should be expandedto include a variety of RF parameters.

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Section: Impact Of Rf Field Characteristicsmentioning

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Behavioral and cognitive effects of microwave exposure

D'Andrea

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Lorge³

2003

Bioelectromagnetics

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“…In a recent report, Jauchem et al (1997) indicated no significant differences in heart rate and arterial blood pressure between UWBRexposed (pulse repetition rate 1 kHz, pulse rise time 300 ps and E-field strength 21 kV m ~') and control rats. Sherry et al (1995) exposed six monkeys to UWBR for 2 min (pulse frequency 60 Hz, pulse duration 5-10 ns, a total of 7200 pulses, bandwidth 100 MHz to 1.5 GHz, peak E-field strength of 250kVm"', and a whole-body SAR calculated to be 0.5mWkg _1 ). Each monkey was exposed to UWBR twice, with an interval of 6 days between exposures.…”

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Services to Operate and Maintain the Microwave Research Facility at Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas

Akyel¹

2001

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“…There have been relatively few studies in the literature on the biological effects of UWB exposure; however, reports by Sherry et al [1995] and Jauchem et al [1998a,b] challenge the notions proposed by Albanese et al [1994]. These studies have found no biological effect of UWB exposure and have used bioassays as diverse as proto-oncogene c-fos in the brain, levels of aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase, creatine kinase, and amylase in the blood, and 30 behavioral and physiological tests.…”

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