Enter words or phrases, names or places to create your custom video playlist.
You can also enter Youtube or Wn URLs



Enter words or phrases, names or places to create your custom video playlist.
You can also enter Youtube or Wn URLs



Add to Playlist
19:29
Krievi - Krīvi - Venäläiset - Russians - Московити
Ethnic Russians (in English), Krievi (in Latvian), Krīvi (in Latgalian), Росіяни (in Ukrai...
published: 17 Feb 2014
Play in Full Screen

An evoked potential (or "evoked response") is an electrical potential recorded from the nervous system of a human or other animal following presentation of a stimulus, as distinct from spontaneous potentials as detected by electroencephalography (EEG) or electromyography (EMG).

Evoked potential amplitudes tend to be low, ranging from less than a microvolt to several microvolts, compared to tens of microvolts for EEG, millivolts for EMG, and often close to a volt for ECG. To resolve these low-amplitude potentials against the background of ongoing EEG, ECG, EMG, and other biological signals and ambient noise, signal averaging is usually required. The signal is time-locked to the stimulus and most of the noise occurs randomly, allowing the noise to be averaged out with averaging of repeated responses.

Signals can be recorded from cerebral cortex, brain stem, spinal cord and peripheral nerves. Usually the term "evoked potential" is reserved for responses involving either recording from, or stimulation of, central nervous system structures. Thus evoked compound motor action potentials (CMAP) or sensory nerve action potentials (SNAP) as used in nerve conduction studies (NCS) are generally not thought of as evoked potentials, though they do meet the above definition.




This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evoked_potential

This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.