Mobile Phone Handset Radiation Impact Study on Brainwave Signal Using EEG

There is ongoing discussion whether mobile phone usage has any effects on brainwave. The aim of this research is to investigate any effects of mobile phone handset radiation on human brainwaves using electroencephalograph (EEG). EEG signals were recorded from five healthy subjects that make calls from a mobile phone to another party without conversation. The EEG recording took place under three different conditions before, during transmitting and receiving the mobile phone calls for more than 10 minutes RF exposure. The spectral powers of the subjects were calculated using FFT and then statistical analysis is carried out using Paired sampled t-test to see the significant effect in the results obtained by FFT. In a nutshell, it has been observed that the RF radiation from mobile phone handset affects the Delta band, Theta band, Beta band significantly. Whereas, no significant effect has been observed for Alpha band and Gamma band as significant value is p > 0.05.