TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Effects of thirty-minute mobile phone use on visuo-motor reaction time
JO  - Clinical neurophysiology
A1  - Terao, Yasuo
A1  - Okano, Tomoko
A1  - Furubayashi, Toshiaki
A1  - Ugawa, Yoshikazu
SP  - 2504
EP  - 2511
VL  - 117
IS  - 11
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1388-2457
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2006.07.318
ID  - ref1
ER  -