Re: Popular brain scrambler for kids (of all ages)

[Guest guest]

> From: oxyplus [mailto:oxyplus ]

I am very interested in getting details of this study, but the link below is

to a story about Kirk , and nowhere on that site can I find anything

about this study...

Help!

> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 5:35 AM

> To: oxyplus

> Subject: Digest Number 1505

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> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 20:31:31 -0500

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> Subject: Popular brain scrambler for kids (of all ages)

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> --- UK Sunday Mirror

>

> Welcome back on line and Happy New Year.

> ------ Janet Newton

>

>

> U.K. Sunday Mirror, Thursday 27th December 2001

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> http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/shtml/NEWS/P15S3.shtml

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> Scientists have discovered that a call lasting just two

> minutes can alter the natural electrical activity of a

> child's brain for up to an hour afterwards.

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>

> THE CHILD SCRAMBLER

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> What a mobile can do to a youngster's brain in 2 mins

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[Guest guest]

At 07:48 1-8-2002 -0500, you wrote:

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> The link you gave to the Sunday Mirror, doesn't go to the article

> you enclosed.

Not my link, but I trust it was correct on the day specified.

The article is archived at Google (the best place to look):

<http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:7kCYMfF6O74C:www.sundaymirror.co

..uk/shtml/NEWS/P15S3.shtml+%22Gerald+Hyland%22+Marbella & hl=en>

Try searching Google.com for - " Gerald Hyland " +Lancet. I got 85

search results re: Dr. Hyland's past cell phone radiation research.

Bill

At 20:31 1-7-2002 -0500, you wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 07:11:16 -0600

> Subject: UK Sunday Mirror says child's brain affected by 2-minute

call (Newton)..

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> ...........From EMF-L........

>

> --- UK Sunday Mirror

>

> Welcome back on line and Happy New Year.

> ------ Janet Newton

>

>

> U.K. Sunday Mirror, Thursday 27th December 2001

>

> http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/shtml/NEWS/P15S3.shtml

>

> Scientists have discovered that a call lasting just two

> minutes can alter the natural electrical activity of a

> child's brain for up to an hour afterwards.

>

>

> THE CHILD SCRAMBLER

>

> What a mobile can do to a youngster's brain in 2 mins

>

> THESE are the first images that show the shocking effect that

> using a mobile phone has on a child's brain.

>

> Scientists have discovered that a call lasting just two minutes

> can alter the natural electrical activity of a child's brain for

> up to an hour afterwards.

>

> And they also found for the first time how radio waves from

> mobile phones penetrate deep into the brain and not just around

> the ear.

>

> The study by Spanish scientists has prompted leading medical

> experts to question whether it is safe for children to use mobile

> phones at all.

>

> Doctors fear that disturbed brain activity in children could lead

> to psychiatric and behavioural problems or impair learning

> ability.

>

> It was the first time that human guinea pigs were used to measure

> the effects of mobile phone radiation on children. The tests

> were carried out on an 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl

> called .

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> Using a CATEEN scanner, linked to a machine measuring brain wave

> activity, researchers were able to create the images above.

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> The yellow coloured part of the scan on the right shows how

> radiation spreads through the centre of the brain and out to the

> ear on the other side of the skull. The scans found that

> disturbed brain wave activity lasted for up to an hour after the

> phone call ended.

>

> Dr Gerald Hyland -- a Government adviser on mobiles -- says he

> finds the results " extremely disturbing " .

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> " It makes one wonder whether children, whose brains are still

> developing, should be using mobile phones, " he adds.

>

> " The results show that children's brains are affected for long

> periods even after very short-term use.

>

> " Their brain wave patterns are abnormal and stay like that for a

> long period.

>

> " This could affect their mood and ability to learn in the

> classroom if they have been using a phone during break time, for

> instance.

>

> " We don't know all the answers yet, but the alteration in brain

> waves could lead to things like a lack of concentration, memory

> loss, inability to learn and aggressive behaviour. "

>

> Previously it had been thought that interference with brain waves

> and brain chemistry stopped when a call ended.

>

> The results of the study by the Spanish Neuro Diagnostic Research

> Institute in Marbella coincide with a new survey that shows 87

> per cent of 11- to 16-year-olds own mobile phones and 40 per cent

> of them spend 15 minutes or more talking each day on them. And

> disturbingly, 70 per cent said they would not change the use of

> their phone even if advised to by the Government.

>

> Dr Hyland plans to publish the latest findings in medical journal

> The Lancet next year.

>

> He said: " This information shows there really isn't a safe

> amount of mobile phone use. We don't know what lasting damage is

> being done by this exposure.

>

> " If I were a parent I would now be extremely wary about allowing

> my children to use a mobile even for a very short period. My

> advice would be to avoid mobiles. "

>

> Dr Klieeisen, who conducted the study, said: " We were

> able to see in minute detail what was going on in the brain.

>

> " We never expected to see this continuing activity in the brain.

>

> " We are worried that delicate balances that exist -- such as the

> immunity to infection and disease -- could be altered by

> interference with chemical balances in the brain. "

>

> A Department of Health spokesman said: " In children mobile phone

> use should be restricted to very short periods of time. "

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