"Photic Stimulation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Investigative technique commonly used during ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY in which a series of bright light flashes or visual patterns are used to elicit brain activity.
| Descriptor ID |
D010775
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.723.729
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| Concept/Terms |
Photic Stimulation- Photic Stimulation
- Visual Stimulation
- Stimulation, Visual
- Stimulations, Visual
- Visual Stimulations
- Stimulation, Photic
- Photic Stimulations
- Stimulations, Photic
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2012 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2013 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Photic Stimulation" by people in Profiles.
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Farahbod H, Rogalsky C, Keator LM, Cai J, Pillay SB, LaCroix AN, Fridriksson J, Binder JR, Venezia JH, Saberi K, Hickok G. Audiovisual Synchrony in Left-hemisphere Brain-lesioned Individuals with Aphasia. J Cogn Neurosci. 2025 11 01; 37(11):2190-2202.
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Kozak S, Herz N, Tocker M, Bar-Haim Y, Censor N. Memory modulation: Dominance of negative visual context over neutral verbal memory. PLoS One. 2024; 19(10):e0312042.
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Herz N, Bar-Haim Y, Tavor I, Tik N, Sharon H, Holmes EA, Censor N. Neuromodulation of Visual Cortex Reduces the Intensity of Intrusive Memories. Cereb Cortex. 2022 01 10; 32(2):408-417.
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Qasim SE, Miller J, Inman CS, Gross RE, Willie JT, Lega B, Lin JJ, Sharan A, Wu C, Sperling MR, Sheth SA, McKhann GM, Smith EH, Schevon C, Stein JM, Jacobs J. Memory retrieval modulates spatial tuning of single neurons in the human entorhinal cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2019 12; 22(12):2078-2086.
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Persichetti AS, Dilks DD. Distinct representations of spatial and categorical relationships across human scene-selective cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 10 15; 116(42):21312-21317.
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Goldstein A, Zeev-Wolf M, Herz N, Ablin JN. Brain responses to other people's pain in fibromyalgia: a magnetoencephalography study. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2019 Jan-Feb; 37 Suppl 116(1):70-74.
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Persichetti AS, Dilks DD. Dissociable Neural Systems for Recognizing Places and Navigating through Them. J Neurosci. 2018 11 28; 38(48):10295-10304.
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Dillon MR, Persichetti AS, Spelke ES, Dilks DD. Places in the Brain: Bridging Layout and Object Geometry in Scene-Selective Cortex. Cereb Cortex. 2018 07 01; 28(7):2365-2374.
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Stange JP, Jenkins LM, Hamlat EJ, Bessette KL, DelDonno SR, Kling LR, Passarotti AM, Phan KL, Klumpp H, Ryan KA, Langenecker SA. Disrupted engagement of networks supporting hot and cold cognition in remitted major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord. 2018 02; 227:183-191.
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Matheson HE, Buxbaum LJ, Thompson-Schill SL. Differential Tuning of Ventral and Dorsal Streams during the Generation of Common and Uncommon Tool Uses. J Cogn Neurosci. 2017 Nov; 29(11):1791-1802.