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Descriptor English: Photic Stimulation
Descriptor Spanish: Estimulación Luminosa
Descriptor estimulación luminosa
Entry term(s) estimulación fótica
estimulación visual
Scope note: Técnica de estudio utilizada con frecuencia durante la ELECTROENCEFALOGRAFÍA en la cual se usan una serie de destellos luminosos o patrones visuales para desencadenar la actividad cerebral.
Descriptor Portuguese: Estimulação Luminosa
Descriptor French: Stimulation lumineuse
Entry term(s): Photic Stimulations
Stimulation, Photic
Stimulation, Visual
Stimulations, Photic
Stimulations, Visual
Visual Stimulation
Visual Stimulations
Tree number(s): E05.723.729
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010775
Scope note: Investigative technique commonly used during ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY in which a series of bright light flashes or visual patterns are used to elicit brain activity.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
IS instrumentation
MT methods
Previous Indexing: Light (1966-1971)
Public MeSH Note: 73
History Note: 73(72)
DeCS ID: 10972
Unique ID: D010775
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Date Established: 1973/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2015/06/26
Photic Stimulation - Preferred
Concept UI M0016742
Scope note Investigative technique commonly used during ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY in which a series of bright light flashes or visual patterns are used to elicit brain activity.
Preferred term Photic Stimulation
Entry term(s) Photic Stimulations
Stimulation, Photic
Stimulation, Visual
Stimulations, Photic
Stimulations, Visual
Visual Stimulation
Visual Stimulations



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