Discovery Puzzle impact of mobile phones on children soon

The largest study in the world starts out by British researchers to verify the possible impact of the use of mobile phones and other wireless devices on the brain development of the child. The project will focus the study of knowledge and adolescence and mobile devices (Skamb) on cognitive functions, such as memory and attention, which continue to grow until adolescence age, a period during which adolescents possession and use of personal phones.

Despite the lack of convincing evidence on the effect of radio waves from mobile devices transferred to health, most of the scientific research to this day focused on adults and the risk of brain cancer.

That is why scientists are still unsure whether the brains of children in a period of growth to be more vulnerable than adult brains, perhaps because they are in the growth stage of nervous system and perhaps they would be more likely with the accumulation of years.

In this context, said Paul Elliott, director of the Center for Environment and Health at Imperial College, London, and who will oversee the study "the scientific evidence available today reassuring and show the absence of a link between exposure to the waves of radio frequencies from mobile phone use and the injury of adult brain cancer in the short term , less than ten years use. "But the available evidence on long-term heavy use and the use of children is limited and less pronounced."

The aim of Elliott and principal investigator in the study Merrill Toledano to collect about 2,500 volunteers from the school children, between the ages of 11 to 12 years and follow-up their development of knowledge over the years, and at the same time collecting data on the number of times and the length of time and the purpose of their use of mobile phones or smart phones and devices other wireless.

The answer parents and students who agree to participate in the study on questions about children's use of mobile devices and wireless technology and state of health and their lifestyle.

The students also will be subject to the tests laid down in the classroom computer to measure cognitive abilities behind the brain functions such as memory and attention.

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