11762 IUPAC Gold Book - evoked potential 10.1351/goldbook.11762 11762 current 1 Electrical potential that is triggered by presentation of a stimulus (somatosensory, auditory, visual) and measured with electrodes near the nerve or near the brain region in which the signal is processed. Speed, amplitude and location of the evoked potential provide information about the intactness of the response. brain https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11647 nerve https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11909 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 866 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11762/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11762/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11762/plain Citation: 'evoked potential' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11762 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-01T00:25:33+00:00