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Descriptor English: Contingent Negative Variation
Descriptor Spanish: Variación Contingente Negativa
Descriptor variación contingente negativa
Entry term(s) potencial de preparación
potencial premotor
Scope note: Desviación negativa de los potenciales eléctricos corticales que aumenta con el tiempo. Se asocia a una respuesta anticipada a un estímulo esperado y es un evento eléctrico que indica un estado de preparación o expectación.
Descriptor Portuguese: Variação Contingente Negativa
Descriptor French: Variation contingente négative
Entry term(s): Bereitschaftspotential
Bereitschaftspotentials
Contingent Negative Variations
Potential, Readiness
Potentials, Readiness
Readiness Potential
Readiness Potentials
Variation, Contingent Negative
Variations, Contingent Negative
Tree number(s): G07.265.216.500.250
G11.561.200.500.250
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003265
Scope note: A negative shift of the cortical electrical potentials that increases over time. It is associated with an anticipated response to an expected stimulus and is an electrical event indicative of a state of readiness or expectancy.
Annotation: refers to cortical electrical potentials
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Electroencephalography (1966-1970)
Electrophysiology (1966-1970)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY 1971-90
History Note: 91(71); was see under ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY 1971-90
DeCS ID: 3284
Unique ID: D003265
NLM Classification: WL 102
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/01/20
Contingent Negative Variation - Preferred
Concept UI M0005073
Scope note A negative shift of the cortical electrical potentials that increases over time. It is associated with an anticipated response to an expected stimulus and is an electrical event indicative of a state of readiness or expectancy.
Preferred term Contingent Negative Variation
Entry term(s) Contingent Negative Variations
Variation, Contingent Negative
Variations, Contingent Negative
Bereitschaftspotential - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0492872
Preferred term Bereitschaftspotential
Entry term(s) Bereitschaftspotentials
Potential, Readiness
Potentials, Readiness
Readiness Potential
Readiness Potentials



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