Excerpt from: "Is the Weather Driving You Crazy?"
By Joseph D'Agnese

... In his behavioral neuroscience lab, students bombard rats with extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves that mimic electrical charges carried in weather systems. Critics say such waves are too low in intensity to have any effect on humans. But Persinger insists it's not the waves' intensity that matters but their frequency and shape. Sooner or later, the body's autonomic nervous system, the bundles of nerves and fibers that control our bodies' internal workings, will respond to the faint but persistent barrage.

Consider what happens at a typical cocktail party, says Persinger. When you enter a room filled with people talking, the voices sound loud at first, then as your hearing acclimates, the voices seem to mute: "If I'm talking to you and I raise my voice and RAISE IT AND RAISE IT, it gets so loud that you leave. If I whisper, though, you pay attention and you can understand what I'm saying." Whispers slice through background noise because they carry two pieces of information: the metamessage ("This is important") and the actual message ("Do this"). He believes extremely low frequency waves grab the brain's attention in much the same manner.

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