Environnement, Risques & Santé
MENULes reportages alarmants peuvent-il induire une électrohypersensibilité ? Volume 16, issue 5, September-October 2017
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- DOI : 10.1684/ers.2017.1055
- Page(s) : 453-5
- Published in: 2017
This news is based on the following article: Bräsher A-K, Raymaekers K, Van den Bergh O, Witthöft M. Are media reports able to cause somatic symptoms attributed to WiFi radiation ? An experimental test of the negative expectation hypothesis. Environ Res 2017; 156: 265-71. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.03.040
This experiment among healthy subjects showed that a film that raises the level of anxiety about the health effects of electromagnetic fields increased the perception of a harmless somatosensory stimulation and supports the notion of media influence in the development of electrohypersensitivity.