electrosensitive

The electric ray may be the most electrosensitive of all animals.

For people who call themselves "electrosensitive," life in our plugged-in world is becoming increasingly unbearable.

Rubin is a bogeyman in the electrosensitive community thanks to a 2008 paper that suggested the condition was psychosomatic.

Experiments show that electrosensitive people are no better than anybody else at identifying when they are being exposed to an electric field.

About half the people in the study believed themselves to be "electrosensitive", reporting symptoms such as headaches and impaired cognitive function from mobile phone use.

You had to have all layers perfectly aligned, with just the right thinness of electrosensitive liquid clasped between them.

She and her team wanted to see whether electrosensitive people could tell if a hidden cell phone antenna was turned on or off, using 50-minute exposure tests.

In electrosensitive fish, the input from the electrosensory system goes to the dorsal octavolateral nucleus, which also has a cerebellum-like structure.

There are some electrosensitive individuals who have allergy-like responses when exposed to microwave radiation and some other forms of electromagnetic radiation, as well.

In mormyrid fish (a family of weakly electrosensitive freshwater fish), the cerebellum is considerably larger than the rest of the brain put together.

Before the monopole system should even be considered, it is essential that research on impacts on electrosensitive marine life and chemical pollution produced at the anode be undertaken.

A 2009 article in the journal PLoS ONE speculated that people who believe they're electrosensitive may have overactive distress signals in the brain.

The sawfish's most distinctive feature is the saw-like rostrum, covered with electrosensitive pores that allow the sawfish to detect slight movements of prey hiding in the muddy sea floor.

(At a recent Public Utilities Commission hearing on smart meters, an audience member requested that all cellphones be turned off as a gesture to the electrosensitive people in the audience.)

The problem is that, time and again, studies of those claiming to be electrosensitive show their ability to determine whether they are being exposed to a real electric field or a sham one is no better than chance.

An increasing number of people are claiming to be "electrosensitive," allergic to the electromagnetic fields that power mobiles, to the point where they've had to quit their jobs or move house, because of the ill effects.

Back in the secluded Swedish forest, the monthly book bus provides a link to the outside world, and a chance for the electrosensitive to socialize with each other before retreating to their homes, where forests and frozen lakes serve as a stunning backdrop.

In one recent example, an English study of 48 self-described "electrosensitive" people and 132 "non-sensitive" people published online in January in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that all of the subjects had pretty much the same reaction to microwave radiation, which is to say no obvious reaction at all.

Thirty participants, half of whom described themselves as electrosensitive, were put in the imager and told that they would undergo a series of trials in which they would be exposed either to an active mobile phone or to a heating device called a thermode, whose temperature would be varied between the trials.