Open AccessDoes exposure to GSM 900 MHz mobile phone radiation affect short-term memory of elementary school students?
Author(s) -
M M Movvahedi,
Ali Tavakkoli-Golpayegani,
Seyed Alireza Mortazavi,
M Haghani,
Zahra Razi,
Manzar Shojaiefard,
Marjan Zare,
E Mina,
L Mansourabadi,
Nazari-Jahromi,
Arash Safari,
Nasrin Shokrpour
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of pediatric neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1998-3948
pISSN - 1817-1745
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1745.139300
Subject(s) - medicine , mobile phone , radiation exposure , confidence interval , audiology , term (time) , phone , nuclear medicine , telecommunications , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Now-a-days, children are exposed to mobile phone radiation at a very early age. We have previously shown that a large proportion of children in the city of Shiraz, Iran use mobile phones. Furthermore, we have indicated that the visual reaction time (VRT) of university students was significantly affected by a 10 min real/sham exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phone. We found that these exposures decreased the reaction time which might lead to a better response to different hazards. We have also revealed that occupational exposures to radar radiations decreased the reaction time in radar workers. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether short-term exposure of elementary school students to radiofrequency (RF) radiation leads to changes in their reaction time and short-term memory.