ELF-007Original text reviewed
Symptoms during blinded electric field transitions
The reported finding
One participant reported symptoms in all 10 pulsed-field intervals, versus mild symptoms in five and none in five sham intervals. A separate behavioural task found no above-chance conscious field identification.
Reading it carefully
Individual response, not prevalence or general RF causation. Continuous versus pulsed conditions and symptom scoring must remain distinct.
Inside the study
Exposure conditions
60 Hz electric field, average over head 300 V/m; repeated 100-second challenge intervals.
Design & controls
Clinical case and controlled provocation; n=1; accepted manuscript methods inspected.
Related research & shared cohorts
Different field regime from RF-013.
The protection question raised
Is this person's symptom response reproducible under comparable blinded conditions? A controlled individual observation is worth understanding without turning it into a prevalence estimate, general RF effect or diagnostic test.
Source verification
Original accepted manuscript methods and results inspected
Where to find the result
Accepted manuscript Tables 2-5; symptoms and field-identification tasks are separate
Editorial notices
Primary PubMed linked-notice record checked 20 Oct 2026; no correction, concern or retraction linked at check. This is not an exhaustive publisher-history certification.
Funding
Not established from retrieved material.
Conflicts of interest
Not established from retrieved material.
Original publication
McCarty DE, Carrubba S, Chesson AL, Frilot C, Gonzalez-Toledo E, Marino AA. Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Evidence for a Novel Neurological Syndrome. International Journal of Neuroscience. 2011;121(12):670-676. doi:10.3109/00207454.2011.608139.