NEW YORK-The National Radiological Protection Board of the United Kingdom said April 8 it will establish an ad hoc group of independent experts to examine the effects of mobile wireless phone use on peoples’ brains.
The announcement followed publication earlier this month in “The International Journal of Radiation Biology” in a Bristol University study indicating mobile phone use may increase short-term memory and reaction times.
“The results were contrary to expectations because, if anything, an increase in short-term memory would seem to be a good result,” Dr. Ian R. Smith, a health care researcher for Lehman Brothers Inc., London, told RCR.
