(Sci-Fi vs Science) Insanity Caused by Magnetic Fields

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Jeff Hopper

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I remember from college reading about a NASA study where researchers subjected rats to a high gauss magnetic field and it caused insanely aggressive behavior in the rats (particularly cannibalism). Now, college for me was 15 years ago and since I cannot find the book which referenced this study, I admit that I could be remembering it wrong.

So, have any of you ever heard of this in a credible scientific paper? If so, let me know the source.
 
It seems that you are describing an early TMS experiment, so perhaps
this Wikipedia article could be a place to start a search for more infor-
mations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation
 
Thanks for the link, it definitely helped (I had discounted Wikipedia as a starting point). From what I'm reading there seems to be different behavior effects from both magnetic field strength and whether or not the field is static or has a frequency.

Here's some more articles I've uncovered:

http://books.google.com/books?id=kBPSmCMv5QUC

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/con...all~order=page

http://www.houptlab.org/Research/magneticfields.html

http://www.ortho.lsuhsc.edu/Faculty/...ysChemPhys.pdf

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5155&page=93
 
By the way, I remember an article that mentioned "strange behaviour"
of crew members, probably caused by strong magnetic fields, during
the early "demagnetization" experiments in World War II, but right now
I do not remember which navy was involved - except that it was not
the German one.
 
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