From: Ian Goddard (Ian@goddard.net)
Date: Mon Nov 01 1999 - 01:42:00 MST
This article claims that research conducted at
the University of Washington provides "proof"
that mobile phones cause long-term memory loss:
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/stories/F3110932.html
If true, since long-term memory is believed
to involve actual physical changes in neuronal
structure (unlike short-term memory), this may
suggest that mobile-phone radiation may cause
actual brain damage, as in neuronal death.
But that is not absolutely indicated.
I did a search at the National Library of
Medicine using several key-word parameters
and "phones memory" found one study:
Accid Anal Prev 1999 Nov;31(6):617-23
Cognitive load and detection thresholds in car
following situations: safety implications for
using mobile (cellular) telephones while driving.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=10487336&form=6&db=m
&Dopt=b
which is only about how car phones increase the
rate of accidents due to taking up too much of
one's attention span, not as a result of any
brain impairments. I sent an email to the doctor
cited in the Mirror article asking for more info.
The Mirror article cites other studies, but I did
not find them at the NLM using some key key words.
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