Title: evoked response
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - evoked response
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.11763
Status: current

Definition
Electrical potential recorded from the nervous system following exposure to a stimulus, as distinct from spontaneous potentials detected by electroencephalography, electromyography, or other electrophysiological recording methods.

Related Terms
- electroencephalography: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11744
- electromyography: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11745
- electrophysiological: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11747
- evoked potential: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11762
- nervous system: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11916

Source
- 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)

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- html: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11763/html
- json: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11763/json
- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11763/xml

Citation: Citation: 'evoked response' 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.11763
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