@article{ref1,
title="Effects of thirty-minute mobile phone use on visuo-motor reaction time",
journal="Clinical neurophysiology",
year="2006",
author="Terao, Yasuo and Okano, Tomoko and Furubayashi, Toshiaki and Ugawa, Yoshikazu",
volume="117",
number="11",
pages="2504-2511",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether exposure to pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic field (pulsed EMF) emitted by a mobile phone has short-term effects on the visuo-motor choice reaction time (RT) and movement time (MT). METHODS: A double blind, counterbalanced crossover design was employed. In 16 normal subjects, we studied the performance of a visuo-motor precued choice reaction time task (PCRT) before and after exposure to EMF emitted by a mobile phone for 30 minutes or sham exposure. RESULTS: The RTs and MTs under different conditions of precue information were not affected by exposure to pulsed EMF emitted by a mobile phone or by sham phone use. CONCLUSIONS: Thirty minutes of mobile phone use has no significant short-term effect on the cortical visuo-motor processing as studied by the present PCRT task. SIGNIFICANCE: This is the first study to investigate visuo-motor behavior in relation to mobile phone exposure. No significant effect of mobile phone use was demonstrated on the performance of the visuo-motor reaction time task.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1388-2457",
doi="10.1016/j.clinph.2006.07.318",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2006.07.318"
}