The Effect of Mobile Telephone Electromagnetic Field on Human Brain Bioelectric Activity and Information Processing Speed.
Mobile telephones have become a primary avenue for communication in our current society. They operate as two-way radios and transmit data and calls through the emission and retrieval of radio waves. These radio waves take the form of oscillating electric and magnetic fields, known as an electromagnetic field. With the understanding of the partial absorption of a mobile telephone electromagnetic field by the skull and brain, there has been a proliferation in concern for one’s health and the potential adverse effects caused by an MP-EMF.
Consequently, studies concerning the technology have increased. However, studies are
continually emerging with conflicting results as to whether or not an MP-EMF has an effect on human brain bioelectric activity and cognitive functions.
In 2007, research from the University of Essex showed that exposure to an EMF for 40 minutes did
not produce an adverse effect on an individual’s performance in an order threshold task
and in 2016, researchers from Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Medical College, Vacoas-Phoenix, Mauritius and University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Delhi, India revealed that chronic MP usage did not result in a decline in a
user’s cognitive function.
Conversely, studies from Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands and Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Haryana, India reported that MP-EMF altered electroencephalogram recordings of brain wave activity, while research from the University of Keele, Newcastle, UK has shown that people that have been exposed to MP-EMF had a higher chance of improved immediate verbal working and immediate visuospatial memory
capacity and sustained attention.
Such diversity in findings delineates the need for further research to obtain more conclusive data. While it stands to reason that the lack of change in human brain bioelectric activity produce consistent cognitive functioning.