Sleep and EEG effects

Sleep, EEG and waking rCBF have been studied in relation to RF exposure for a decade now, and the majority of papers published to date have found some form of effect. Whilst a Finnish study failed to find any effect on sleep or other cognitive function from pulsed RF exposure[42], most other papers have found significant effects on sleep[43][44][45][46][47][48]. Two of these papers found the effect was only present when the exposure was pulsed (amplitude modulated), and one early paper actually found that sleep quality (measured by the amount of participants' broken sleep) actually improved.

Whilst some papers were inconclusive or inconsistent[49][50], a number of studies have now demonstrated reversible EEG and rCBF alterations from exposure to pulsed RF exposure[51][52][53][54]. German research from 2006 found that statistically significant EEG changes could be consistently found, but only in a relatively low proportion of study participants (12 - 30%)