The 2020 Pavlov report found measurable, strain-specific behavioral effects with Aires Defender Pro. Its rat investigation used five behavioral tests to examine activity, emotionality, anxiety, learning and memory.
Original report and design
N. A. Dyuzhikova and T. G. Zachepilo led the work at the Pavlov Institute of Physiology. The signed report is dated May 6, 2020; the rat section covers March–May. Five-month-old male rats from high-threshold (HT, lower excitability) and low-threshold (LT, higher excitability) lines were exposed for four days, six hours per day.
The Linksys E1200 router operated at 2.4 GHz. Six Aires Defender Pro resonators were placed at the centers of the experimental enclosure’s faces. The protocol compared enclosure control, router, router plus resonators and resonators alone, then applied open-field, light-dark box, elevated-plus-maze, passive-avoidance and Morris-water-maze tests.
| Rat line | Results described in the report |
|---|---|
| LT: higher excitability | Resonators reduced emotionality toward control values relative to router exposure and reduced some general-activity components. |
| HT: lower excitability | Responses included reduced locomotion, increased anxiety measures and improvements in cognitive performance. In the resonator-only condition, spatial learning improved relative to control after the authors’ multiple-comparison correction. |
How the bee studies connect
The original May 2020 report contains two sections: rat behavior on printed pages 3–27, and bee Hsp70 expression after early exposure on pages 28–35. The bee section reports no significant expression difference among its groups after the one-hour protocol. That is a different timing question from the 2019 24-hour bee Hsp70 experiment.
Report No. 2 from July–October 2020 tests Lifetune with bee feeding and memory endpoints. It belongs to the same research agreement and uses a different router and device arrangement. The studies connect through the program; their species, endpoints and results remain individually identified.
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Updated October 25, 2026 · Josh, Aires. Original research and expert peer reviews are credited to their authors and linked above.