"Touch" 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.
Sensation of making physical contact with objects, animate or inanimate. Tactile stimuli are detected by MECHANORECEPTORS in the skin and mucous membranes.
| Descriptor ID |
D014110
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.830.816.850 G11.561.790.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Touch- Touch
- Sense of Touch
- Touch Sense
- Touch Senses
- Taction
- Tactions
- Tactile Sense
- Sense, Tactile
- Senses, Tactile
- Tactile Senses
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Touch" by people in this website by year, and whether "Touch" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2006 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2009 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2015 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2020 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2021 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Touch" by people in Profiles.
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A context-dependent switch from sensing to feeling in the primate amygdala. Cell Rep. 2023 02 28; 42(2):112056.
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The neural basis of tactile texture perception. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2022 10; 76:102621.
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Perceived timing of cutaneous vibration and intracortical microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex. Brain Stimul. 2022 May-Jun; 15(3):881-888.
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Frequency Shapes the Quality of Tactile Percepts Evoked through Electrical Stimulation of the Nerves. J Neurosci. 2022 03 09; 42(10):2052-2064.
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Intracortical Somatosensory Stimulation to Elicit Fingertip Sensations in an Individual With Spinal Cord Injury. Neurology. 2022 Feb 15; 98(7):e679-e687.
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Sensory computations in the cuneate nucleus of macaques. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 12 07; 118(49).
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Intracortical microstimulation of somatosensory cortex enables object identification through perceived sensations. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2021 11; 2021:6259-6262.
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Evolution of touch and proprioception of the limbs: Insights from fish and humans. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2021 12; 71:37-43.
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Chronic Use of a Sensitized Bionic Hand Does Not Remap the Sense of Touch. Cell Rep. 2020 12 22; 33(12):108539.
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Information about contact force and surface texture is mixed in the firing rates of cutaneous afferent neurons. J Neurophysiol. 2021 02 01; 125(2):496-508.