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To: John Finley who wrote (616)	4/9/1999 8:43:00 AM
From: kinkblot	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1820

Mobile phones 'speed reactions' [4/9 - heading changed to "Government action over mobile phones"] news.bbc.co.uk Study by Dr. Alan Preece of Bristol University, funded by the UK Department of Health. He strapped a device giving off mobile phone radiation to the heads of volunteers and then measured their responses to a series of exercises on a computer. These were designed to measure reaction times, spatial memory, immediate word recall and delayed word recall. He found that the radiation had no effect on memory or concentration, but it did increase the speed of response by four percent: The only major difference recorded was in reaction times to yes and no questions. The researchers think there are two possible reasons for the variation - that the mobile users' brains are temporarily heated leading to increased blood flow or that a change occurs in protein synthesis, leading to the creation of heat shock proteins. Other scientists are still skeptical about the results, thus 'quotation marks' in the heading. Phones equipped with the CyberDisplay might have been useful for this study!