"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Touch" by people in Profiles.
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Supportive Touch in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. Am J Bioeth. 2025 Jan; 25(1):29-39.
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A neurocomputational analysis of visual bias on bimanual tactile spatial perception during a crossmodal exposure. Front Neural Circuits. 2022; 16:933455.
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Thalamus-driven functional populations in frontal cortex support decision-making. Nat Neurosci. 2022 10; 25(10):1339-1352.
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Evoking highly focal percepts in the fingertips through targeted stimulation of sulcal regions of the brain for sensory restoration. Brain Stimul. 2021 Sep-Oct; 14(5):1184-1196.
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TTI-101: A competitive inhibitor of STAT3 that spares oxidative phosphorylation and reverses mechanical allodynia in mouse models of neuropathic pain. Biochem Pharmacol. 2021 10; 192:114688.
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Does Raising the Arms Modify Head Tremor Severity in Cervical Dystonia? Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y). 2021 06 23; 11:21.
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Pleural Touch Preparations for Medical Thoracoscopy: Are We There Yet? J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2021 Apr 01; 28(2):93-94.
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Auditory and tactile frequency representations are co-embedded in modality-defined cortical sensory systems. Neuroimage. 2020 07 15; 215:116837.
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Potential for occupational exposures to pathogens during bronchoscopy procedures. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2019 10; 16(10):707-716.
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Reciprocal Interactions Between Audition and Touch in Flutter Frequency Perception. Multisens Res. 2019 01 01; 32(1):67-85.