CHE EMF Working Group call: The Link Between EMF and Autism?
A Conversation with Cindy Sage and Martha Herbert
Dec 10, 2013
The CHE EMF Working group is pleased to announce a
teleconference on TuesdayDecember 10, 2013 at 1:00 pm Pacific / 4:00 pm Eastern
featuring Cindy Sage and Dr. Martha Herbert. On this call, there will be a
quick overview of the BioInitiative 2012 Report, including an overview of the
critical new chapters including:
fertility/reproduction, fetal and neonatal
effects, blood- brain barrier and autism. The majority of the call, however, will
focus on a discussion about the possible links between autism and EMF, based on
the recently published two part paper, entitled, Autism and EMF? Plausibility
of a pathophysiological link - Part I and Part II. They will discuss current
findings on brain oxidative stress and inflammation, free radical damage,
cellular stress proteins, mitochondrial dysfunction, and deficiencies of
antioxidants such as glutathione, elevated intracellular calcium and
blood-brain barrier and brain perfusion compromise. Additionally they will
present on current findings of disruption of electromagnetic signaling,
synchrony, and sensory processing, alterations of electrophysiological
oscillatory synchronization and immune system dysregulation.
Featured speakers:
Cindy Sage is an environmental consultant and public policy
researcher specializing in EMF issues since 1982. She has provided professional
consulting services to cities, counties,
states and a national EMF policy group on the issue of EMF policy and
prudent avoidance. Ms. Sage has numerous publications and invited presentations
in the areas of EMF public policy, public perception, land use planning and
computer modeling of EMF, real property impacts from transmission lines, and
remediation of high field environments.
Dr. Martha Herbert, MD, is an Assistant Professor of
Neurology at Harvard Medical School, a Pediatric Neurologist at the
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and an affiliate of the
Harvard-MIT-MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, where she is director
of the TRANSCEND Research Program (Treatment Research and Neuroscience
Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders). Her main research interests are in
addressing autism as a “dynamic encephalopathy” (something that can change)
rather than a “static encephalopathy” (something that is fixed for life) and in
how environmental vulnerability affects brain and body health and function.
The call will be moderated by Antoinette Stein, Coordinator,
CHE EMF Working Group. Michael Lerner, President, Commonweal, will provide
opening remarks.
The call will last one hour and will be recorded for
archival purposes.
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment
c/o Commonweal, PO Box 316, Bolinas, CA 94924
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