Mobile phones modulate response patterns of human brain activity

Abstract

Mobile phones emit a pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic field (PEMF) which may penetrate the scalp and the skull. Increasingly, there is an interest in the interaction of this pulsed microwave radiation with the human brain. Our investigations show that these electromagnetic fields alter distinct aspects of the brain's electrical response to acoustic stimuli. More precisely, our results demonstrate that aspects of the induced but not the evoked brain activity during PEMF exposure can be different from those not influenced by PEMF radiation. This effect appears in higher frequency bands when subjects process task-relevant target stimuli but was not present for irrelevant standard stimuli. As the induced brain activity in higher frequency bands has been proposed to be a correlate of coherent high-frequency neuronal activity, PEMF exposure may provide means to systematically alter the pattern fluctuations in neural mass activity.

Auditory Brainstem Responses and EMFs Generated by Mobile Phones

“…Several studies have investigated the interaction between mobile phones and brain functions in humans including their effect on hearing [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Some of the similar recent studies have been highlighted below:…”

Mobile phones and health: A literature overview

“…Eulitz et al reported a modulation in the high-frequency bands of the EEG after task-relevant but not after standard auditory stimuli [26]. Freude et al found an effect on preparatory slow brain potentials for visual monitoring tasks, but not for less demanding tasks such as finger movements [31,32].…”

Microwave effects on the nervous system

“…Eulitz et al [1998] studied the interaction of cell phone pulsed MW exposure within the human brain. Subjects were 13 healthy males 21-27 years old.…”