Study suggests there's a connection between smartphone use and memory loss in teens
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Upset at Junior because he failed a test? Maybe the problem isn't your kid's studying habits, or his lack of concentration in the classroom. A new report suggests that his smartphone might be to blame. A report published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Switzerland states that it only takes one-year of smartphone use for a teenager's brain to be affected by the radiation spit out by the device during phone calls.
For adolescents who basically use their phone to play games, browse the web or send texts, the good news is that those activities release minimal amounts of RF-EMF to the brain, and no significant change in memory was discovered in users who focused on those features of a smartphone. To mitigate the dangers involved with the release of RF-EMF from a smartphone, users can wear headphones or employ the speaker feature on the device when on a phone call.
We found preliminary evidence suggesting that RF-EMF may affect brain functions such as figural memory in regions that are most exposed during mobile phone use. Our findings do not provide conclusive evidence of causal effects and should be interpreted with caution until confirmed in other populations. Associations with media use parameters with low RF-EMF exposures did not provide clear or consistent support of effects of media use unrelated to RF-EMF (with the possible exception of consistent positive associations between verbal memory and data traffic duration). It is not yet clear which brain processes could be potentially affected and what biophysical mechanism may play a role. Potential long-term risk can be minimized by avoiding high brain-exposure situations as occurs when using a mobile phone with maximum power close to the ear because of, for example, bad network quality."-Conclusions of the study
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