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Received March 17, 2005
Accepted May 23, 2005

Inhibited head movements: A risk of combining phoning with other activities?

Brian S. Oommen MS and John S. Stahl MD, PhD*

From the Department of Neurology, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (B.S. Oommen and Dr. Stahl), and Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University (Dr. Stahl), Cleveland, OH.


* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jss6{at}case.edu.

Abstract-- Studies of cellular phone use while driving have attributed impaired performance to the distractions of conversation. We determined that holding an inactive phone to the ear reduces the probability of eccentric head positions, potentially indicating reduced ability to monitor the visual surround. This effect may constitute a risk of cellular phone use independent of conversation and peculiar to handheld models.




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