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Nora Volkow: Microwave News Article Archive (2004 - )

September 23, 2013

“The Alteration of Spontaneous Low-Frequency Oscillations Caused by Acute EMF Exposure,” Clinical Neurophysiology, posted online September 6, 2013.

“The results demonstrated the RF-EMF exposure modulated the brain neural activity not only in the closer brain region but also in the remote region and even in the contralateral brain region.” The RF exposure was a 30-minute LTE signal. From Beijing China. See also our report on the Volkow study.

July 17, 2011

More Mixed Messages on Cancer Risks

More mixed messages this weekend. In an interview headlined "Cell Phones and Cancer: Is There a Connection?," Nora Volkow, while acknowledging the uncertainties in Interphone and other epidemiological studies, continues to argue that precaution is the most sensible course of action. "I would feel...

May 29, 2011

Responses to Volkow's Brain Metabolism Study

The May 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association has three letters critical of Nora Volkow's study showing changes in glucose metabolism due to cell phone radiation, together with a...

March 8, 2011

Connecting the Dots: Putting the Volkow Brain Scans in Perspective

"Cell Phones Affect Brain Activity." That headline has appeared all over the world since Nora Volkow published a PET scan of a brain lit up by a cell phone last month. Her colorful graphics, published in the high impact Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), guaranteed Volkow a large and attentive audience. But all the hoopla shouldn't obscure the fact that for more than a decade many others, notably Peter Achermann's group at the University of Zurich, have shown similar types of radiation-induced changes in the brain as well as much more.

February 22, 2011

Cell Phone Radiation Changes Brain Metabolism

A well-regarded and influential team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) is on the brink of resolving a long-standing dispute with enormous implications for public health. In a paper due out tomorrow, Nora Volkow and coworkers are reporting that cell phone radiation can affect the normal functioning of the human brain.

Whether these short-term changes will lead to health consequences (and what they might be) is far from clear — though Volkow already has preliminary indications of a long-term effect. Nor is the mechanism of interaction yet known. But the new finding, if confirmed, would at the very least force a rethink of the prevailing orthodoxy, which maintains that low levels of RF and microwave radiation are too weak to have any effect and can be disregarded.