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A new study has disclosed that long talks on cell phones can have adverse effect of memory.
According to Henrietta Nittby and Leif Salford of the neurosurgery division of Sweden's Lund University, the findings of the study may be linked to the team's earlier research, which showed that microwave radiation from cell phones could affect the brain’s blood-brain barrier. The barrier is selectively permeable and serves to protect the brain by preventing substances circulating in the blood from entering the brain tissue and damaging nerve cells.
The researchers found that rats exposed to cellphone radiation for two hours every week for more than a year had poorer results on a memory test as compared to the control group that hadn't been exposed to mobile rays.
The research team also found certain nerve damage in the form of damaged nerve cells in the cerebral cortex and in the hippocampus, the memory center of the brain.Henrietta Nittby said, “We now see that things happen to the brains of lab animals after cell phone radiation. The next step is to try to understand why this happens.”
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