The electromagnetic radiation emitted by a cellular phone’s antenna appears to activate nearby regions of the brain to unusually high levels, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association that is likely to spark new concerns about the health effects of wireless devices.According to the study, the area of the brain closest to the cell phone’s antenna elevated its glucose metabolism, which is a form of measuring brain cell activity, due to the electromagnetic field emitted by the phone in those regions.”Although we cannot determine the clinical significance, our results give evidence that the human brain is sensitive to the effects of radiofrequency-electromagnetic fields from acute cell phone exposures,” said Nora Volkow, MD, MD, of the National Institutes of Health and the study’s lead author.Read the abstract from the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Study: Cell Phones Cause Brain-Activity Changes
