 Touch
"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 G11.561.600.810.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Touch- Touch
- Taction
- Tactions
- Sense of Touch
- Touch Sense
- Touch Senses
- 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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| 1988 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1992 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 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 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 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 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Touch" by people in Profiles.
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Graczyk EL, Christie BP, He Q, Tyler DJ, Bensmaia SJ. 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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Fifer MS, McMullen DP, Osborn LE, Thomas TM, Christie B, Nickl RW, Candrea DN, Pohlmeyer EA, Thompson MC, Anaya MA, Schellekens W, Ramsey NF, Bensmaia SJ, Anderson WS, Wester BA, Crone NE, Celnik PA, Cantarero GL, Tenore FV. 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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Suresh AK, Greenspon CM, He Q, Rosenow JM, Miller LE, Bensmaia SJ. Sensory computations in the cuneate nucleus of macaques. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 12 07; 118(49).
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Osborn LE, Christie BP, McMullen DP, Nickl RW, Thompson MC, Pawar AS, Thomas TM, Alejandro Anaya M, Crone NE, Wester BA, Bensmaia SJ, Celnik PA, Cantarero GL, Tenore FV, Fifer MS. 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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Hale ME. 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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Ortiz-Catalan M, Mastinu E, Greenspon CM, Bensmaia SJ. 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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Liu M, Batista A, Bensmaia S, Weber DJ. 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.
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Hardy AR, Hale ME. Sensing the structural characteristics of surfaces: texture encoding by a bottom-dwelling fish. J Exp Biol. 2020 11 03; 223(Pt 21).
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Kumaravelu K, Tomlinson T, Callier T, Sombeck J, Bensmaia SJ, Miller LE, Grill WM. A comprehensive model-based framework for optimal design of biomimetic patterns of electrical stimulation for prosthetic sensation. J Neural Eng. 2020 09 18; 17(4):046045.
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George JA, Brinton MR, Colgan PC, Colvin GK, Bensmaia SJ, Clark GA. Intensity Discriminability of Electrocutaneous and Intraneural Stimulation Pulse Frequency in Intact Individuals and Amputees. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2020 07; 2020:3893-3896.
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