Independent UK: Mobile phone radiation wrecks your sleep

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Mobile phone radiation wrecks your sleep
Phone makers own scientists discover that bedtime use can lead to headaches, confusion and depression


By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Sunday, 20 January 2008


Radiation from mobile phones delays and reduces sleep, and causes headaches and confusion, according to a new study.

The research, sponsored by the mobile phone companies themselves, shows that using the handsets before bed causes people to take longer to reach the deeper stages of sleep and to spend less time in them, interfering with the body's ability to repair damage suffered during the day.

The findings are especially alarming for children and teenagers, most of whom – surveys suggest – use their phones late at night and who especially need sleep. Their failure to get enough can lead to mood and personality changes, ADHD-like symptoms, depression, lack of concentration and poor academic performance.

The study – carried out by scientists from the blue-chip Karolinska Institute and Uppsala University in Sweden and from Wayne State University in Michigan, USA – is thought to be the most comprehensive of its kind.

Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium and funded by the Mobile Manufacturers Forum, representing the main handset companies, it has caused serious concern among top sleep experts, one of whom said that there was now "more than sufficient evidence" to show that the radiation "affects deep sleep". .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/mobile-phone-radiation-wrecks-your-sleep-771262.html

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1. As a parent with a teen who has sleep problems

this is vital information. I'm searching for ways to help him. It's bad enough that in the age group of people who need the most sleep, the schools start way too early. I've read that in the late teen years, they aren't physically wired to fall asleep until and no earlier than between 11pm and midnight. Getting up for school by 6:30 am makes it impossible for them to meet the 8 hour minimum required hours of sleep for their age.

Serious signs of sleep deprivation are showing in an already hormonally wired child.