Cell phones affect memory

Does radiation from cell phones affect memory? The answer is yes - at least in mouse experiments conducted by the neurosurgeology department at Lund University in Sweden. Henrietta Nittby studied mice exposed to cell phone radiation for 2 hours a week for more than 1 year. These mice have lower memory test results than normal mice.

Check memory including dropping the mouse into an inner box containing 4 objects. This process repeats and their objects and placement in 2 times are different.

The third time is a real search. The mice were exposed to two objects from the first and two objects from the second . Ordinary mice spend more time with magnetic objects for the first time, because they have not been exposed to these objects for longer.

In contrast, experimental mice showed little difference in their interest in objects.
Henrietta Nittby and Professor Leif Salford, commented that this result is related to the team's previous finding: shortwave radiation from cell phones can affect the blood-brain barrier. This is a system that protects the brain by preventing substances circulating in the blood from entering the brain tissue and causing damage to nerve cells. Leif Salford and colleagues also discovered that albumin, a protein that functions as a transport molecule in the blood, enters inside brain tissue when laboratory mice are exposed to cell phone radiation.

Does radiation from cell phones affect memory? (Photo: iStockphoto / Karen Town)

The team also found that some nerve lesions are in the form of nerve cells damaged in the cerebral cortex and the fish code, the memory center of the brain.The penetration of albumin appears directly after exposure to radiation, while nerve damage occurs after 4 to 8 weeks. In addition, they found differences in the activity of a large number of genes, not single genes but related gene groups.

Henrietta Nittby said: 'We have seen phenomena occurring in the brains of lab rats after gas exposure to cell phone radiation. The next step is to find out why they happen '.

She also uses a cell phone, but never puts it on her ear to hear it and uses a hands-free phone instead.