Research on the neurological effects of nonionizing radiation at the University of Washington.

Lai H,

Bioelectromagnetics. 13(6). P 513-26. 1992

Abstract: This paper reviews research on neurological effects of low- level microwave irradiation, which was performed at the University of Washington, during the decade of the 1980s. We studied in the rat the effects of microwave exposure on the actions of various psychoactive drugs, on the activity of cholinergic systems in the brain, and on the neural mechanisms involved.

Our results indicate that endogenous opioids play an important mediating role in some of the neurological effects of microwaves, and that parameters of microwave exposure are important determinants of the outcome of the microwave effects.