Mobile phones linked to increased brain activity

RESEARCHERS say they have found a connection between mobile phone use and increased brain activity.

American scientists found that 50 minutes of mobile phone use was associated with increased “brain glucose metabolism” — a marker of brain activity — in the region closest to the phone antenna.

Health implications are unknown, they say in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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