Papageorgiou Charalabos C, Nanou Eleni D, Tsiafakis Vassilis G, Kapareliotis E, Kontoangelos Kostantinos A, Capsalis Christos N, Rabavilas Andreas D, Soldatos Constantin R
Department of Psychiatry, Eginition Hospital, University of Athens, Greece.
Neurosci Lett. 2006;397(1-2):99-103. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.12.001. Epub 2006 Jan 6.
There is a debate whether electromagnetic field (EMF) emitted by mobile phones (MP) have an effect on cognitive functions. Since the auditory P50 component of event-related potentials (ERPs) reflects pre-attentive processing and working memory (WM) operation, the present study was designed to investigate whether the exposure to MP-EMF affects the patterns of the P50 component of ERPs elicited during a WM test. The P50 elicited during a WM task and evoked by two warning stimuli low and high frequency (500 and 3000 Hz) has been assessed in 19 normal subjects (10 women and 9 men) both without and with exposure to a 900 MHz signal, emitted by a dipole antenna placed near the subjects. Results showed that the presence of MP-EMFs induced statistically significant increase in the amplitude of P50 evoked by the low frequency stimuli, at Fp1 and O1 electrode leads as compared to themselves without MP-EMF exposure. In contrast the exposure to MP-EMFs revealed statistically significant decrease of the amplitude of P50 evoked by the high frequency stimuli, at Fp1 electrode lead as compared to themselves without MP-EMF exposure. These findings provide evidence that the MP-EMF emitted by mobile phone affect pre-attentive information processing as it is reflected in P50 evoked potential. The basis of such an effect is unclear, although several possibilities exist and call for potential directions of future research.
关于手机(MP)发出的电磁场(EMF)是否会对认知功能产生影响存在争议。由于事件相关电位(ERP)的听觉P50成分反映了注意前加工和工作记忆(WM)操作,本研究旨在调查暴露于MP-EMF是否会影响在WM测试期间诱发的ERP的P50成分模式。在19名正常受试者(10名女性和9名男性)中,评估了在WM任务期间由两个低频和高频(500和3000Hz)警告刺激诱发的P50,受试者在无暴露和暴露于靠近其放置的偶极天线发出的900MHz信号两种情况下均进行了评估。结果显示,与未暴露于MP-EMF时相比,MP-EMF的存在导致在Fp1和O1电极导联处由低频刺激诱发的P50振幅在统计学上显著增加。相比之下,与未暴露于MP-EMF时相比,暴露于MP-EMF显示在Fp1电极导联处由高频刺激诱发的P50振幅在统计学上显著降低。这些发现提供了证据,表明手机发出的MP-EMF会影响注意前信息加工,这在P50诱发电位中得到反映。尽管存在几种可能性并需要未来研究的潜在方向,但这种效应的基础尚不清楚。
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