"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 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2020 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2021 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Touch" by people in Profiles.
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Conveying tactile object characteristics through customized intracortical microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex. Nat Commun. 2025 May 01; 16(1):4017.
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Tactile edges and motion via patterned microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex. Science. 2025 01 17; 387(6731):315-322.
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Disentangling Temporal and Rate Codes in the Primate Somatosensory Cortex. J Neurosci. 2024 Sep 18; 44(38).
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Case 11-2024: An 82-Year-Old Woman with Falls and Cognitive Decline. N Engl J Med. 2024 Apr 11; 390(14):1312-1322.
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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).