Using a mobile phone at bedtime makes you depressed, confused

A STUDY has just shown that mobile phone use before bedtime can make you depressed, cause headaches and confusion.

Boffins at the Karolinska Institute and Uppsala University in Sweden and from Wayne State University in Michigan, who were working for the mobile phone companies discovered that people who call before kipping can't get into deep sleep states. This means that the body can't repair any damage that it might have suffered during the day.

Teens, who need more sleep, tend to suffer mood and personality changes, ADHD-like symptoms, depression, lack of concentration and poor academic performance. How they could tell this was the phone and not the by-product of being a teen they did not say.

The embarrassed Mobile Manufacturers Forum played down the results claiming that the "results were inconclusive".

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