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UMTS Base Station-Like Exposure, Well Being and Cognitive Performance Sabine J. Regel, Sonja Negovetic, Martin R??sli, Veronica Berdi?as, Jürgen Schuderer, Anke Huss, Urs Lott, Niels Kuster, and Peter Achermann doi:10.1289/ehp.8934 (available at /) Online 6 June 2006 The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences National Institutes of Health U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1 UMTS Base Station-Like Exposure, Well Being and Cognitive Performance Sabine J. Regel 1 , Sonja Negovetic 1 , Martin R??sli 2 , Veronica Berdi?as 3 , Jürgen Schuderer 3 , Anke Huss 2 , Urs Lott 3 , Niels Kuster 3 , and Peter Achermann 1,4 1 University of Zürich, Institute of Pharmacology Toxicology, Zürich, Switzerland 2 University of Bern, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Bern, Switzerland 3 ITIS Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland 4 University of Zürich, Center for Integrative Human Physiology, Zürich, Switzerland Corresponding author: Peter Achermann, PhD University of Zürich Institute of Pharmacology Toxicology Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH-8057 Zürich Email: acherman@pharma.unizh.ch Phone: +41 -44 -63 559 54 Fax: +41 -44 -63 557 07 2 Acknowledgments The study was supported by the Swiss Research Foundation on Mobile Communication grant A2004-0. All authors declare no conflict of interest. We thank Nora Burgermeister and Eveline Honegger for her help with the experiment, Denis Sp?t for support with exposure equipment, Dr. Brad Anholt for help with power analysis, Dr. Roland Dürr, Peter Sepan and Karl Wüthrich for technical support, and Dr. Alexander Borbély for comments on the manuscript. We acknowledge the support of Dr. Gregor Dürrenberger in fund rising and the scientific expert panel (Drs. Peter Zwamborn, Heinz-Gregor Wieser, Christian Schindler and Alexander Grob) in the design of the study. Article descripto