Acute mobile phone effects on pre-attentive operation

Papageorgiou, CC; Nanou, ED; Tsiafakis, VG; Kapareliotis, E; Kontoangelos, KA; Capsalis, CN; Rabavilas, AD; Soldatos, CR

dc.contributor.author	Papageorgiou, CC	en
dc.contributor.author	Nanou, ED	en
dc.contributor.author	Tsiafakis, VG	en
dc.contributor.author	Kapareliotis, E	en
dc.contributor.author	Kontoangelos, KA	en
dc.contributor.author	Capsalis, CN	en
dc.contributor.author	Rabavilas, AD	en
dc.contributor.author	Soldatos, CR	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:23:32Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:23:32Z
dc.date.issued	2006	en
dc.identifier.issn	0304-3940	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/17007
dc.subject	Electromagnetic fields	en
dc.subject	Event-related potentials	en
dc.subject	Information processing	en
dc.subject	Mobile phones	en
dc.subject	P50	en
dc.subject	Working memory	en
dc.subject.classification	Neurosciences	en
dc.subject.other	adult	en
dc.subject.other	amplitude modulation	en
dc.subject.other	article	en
dc.subject.other	attention	en
dc.subject.other	cognition	en
dc.subject.other	controlled study	en
dc.subject.other	electrode	en
dc.subject.other	electromagnetic field	en
dc.subject.other	electrooculogram	en
dc.subject.other	event related potential	en
dc.subject.other	female	en
dc.subject.other	frequency modulation	en
dc.subject.other	hearing test	en
dc.subject.other	human	en
dc.subject.other	human experiment	en
dc.subject.other	male	en
dc.subject.other	mobile phone	en
dc.subject.other	normal human	en
dc.subject.other	priority journal	en
dc.subject.other	signal transduction	en
dc.subject.other	task performance	en
dc.subject.other	working memory	en
dc.subject.other	Adult	en
dc.subject.other	Cellular Phone	en
dc.subject.other	Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation	en
dc.subject.other	Electroencephalography	en
dc.subject.other	Electromagnetic Fields	en
dc.subject.other	Electrooculography	en
dc.subject.other	Evoked Potentials, Auditory	en
dc.subject.other	Female	en
dc.subject.other	Humans	en
dc.subject.other	Male	en
dc.subject.other	Memory, Short-Term	en
dc.subject.other	Neuropsychological Tests	en
dc.title	Acute mobile phone effects on pre-attentive operation	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1016/j.neulet.2005.12.001	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2005.12.001	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2006	en
heal.abstract	There is a debate whether electromagnetic field (EMF) emitted by mobile phones (MP) have an effect on cognitive functions. Since the auditory P50 component of event-related potentials (ERPs) reflects pre-attentive processing and working memory (WM) operation, the present study was designed to investigate whether the exposure to MP-EMF affects the patterns of the P50 component of ERPs elicited during a WM test. The P50 elicited during a WM task and evoked by two warning stimuli low and high frequency (500 and 3000 Hz) has been assessed in 19 normal subjects (10 women and 9 men) both without and with exposure to a 900 MHz signal, emitted by a dipole antenna placed near the subjects. Results showed that the presence of MP-EMFs induced statistically significant increase in the amplitude of P50 evoked by the low frequency stimuli, at Fp1 and O1 electrode leads as compared to themselves without MP-EMF exposure. In contrast the exposure to MP-EMFs revealed statistically significant decrease of the amplitude of P50 evoked by the high frequency stimuli, at Fp1 electrode lead as compared to themselves without MP-EMF exposure. These findings provide evidence that the MP-EMF emitted by mobile phone affect pre-attentive information processing as it is reflected in P50 evoked potential. The basis of such an effect is unclear, although several possibilities exist and call for potential directions of future research. (C) 2005 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.	en
heal.publisher	ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD	en
heal.journalName	Neuroscience Letters	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.neulet.2005.12.001	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000236241700021	en
dc.identifier.volume	397	en
dc.identifier.issue	1-2	en
dc.identifier.spage	99	en
dc.identifier.epage	103	en