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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Study Finds Cell Phone Radiation Changes Brain Activity

Author:     CLAUDIA KALB
Source:     The Daily Beast
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Link: Study Finds Cell Phone Radiation Changes Brain Activity
Stephan:   This is the latest in a trend SR has been following for over a decade, and it is a well-done study that makes good sense. They don't really mention it, but the major problem arises from holding the broadcasting device against one's head, or carrying it in one's trouser pockets. That's not hard to work around. Get an earpiece, and a belt carrier, or carry the phone in a jacket pocket or, for women, in a purse, which is where most women carry it anyway.

A ground breaking study published today by one of the world’s leading neuroscientist’s challenges the longstanding conviction that radiation emitted from cell phones is too weak to have an effect on the brain.

You can think of cell phone saturation as one giant, uncontrolled human experiment. There are now 293 million wireless connections in use in the United States, according to the trade group, CTIA-The Wireless Association. And Americans log a staggering 2.26 trillion minutes yakking on those mobile devices every year-all at a time when the biological effects of cell phones remain controversial and the research on those effects often of dubious quality.

A study published today by leading researchers in the premiere medical journal, JAMA hasn’t found a smoking gun, but it does challenge the longstanding conviction that radiation emitted from cell phones is too weak to have an effect on the brain. It is notable not only for that finding and for appearing in a top journal-it is also turning heads because the lead researcher is Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and one of the world’s leading brain scientists.

She and colleagues from the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory took brain scans of 47 […]

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