"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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| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 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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Electro-tactile modulation of muscle activation and intermuscular coordination in the human upper extremity. Sci Rep. 2025 Jan 20; 15(1):2559.
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Haptiknit: Distributed stiffness knitting for wearable haptics. Sci Robot. 2024 Dec 18; 9(97):eado3887.
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Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test. Curr Biol. 2024 03 25; 34(6):1370-1375.e2.
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Tactile training facilitates infants' ability to reach to targets on the body. Child Dev. 2023 05; 94(3):e154-e165.
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Cognitive-Motor Impairment in Manual Tasks in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes. OTJR (Thorofare N J). 2020 04; 40(2):113-121.
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Coefficient of Friction at the Fingertips in Type II Diabetics Compared to Healthy Adults. J Appl Biomech. 2017 Jul; 33(3):185-188.
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Contribution of tactile dysfunction to manual motor dysfunction in type II diabetes. Muscle Nerve. 2016 11; 54(5):895-902.
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Vibrotactile cuing revisited to reveal a possible challenge to sensorimotor adaptation. Exp Brain Res. 2016 12; 234(12):3523-3530.
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Effect of visual and tactile feedback on kinematic synergies in the grasping hand. Med Biol Eng Comput. 2016 Aug; 54(8):1217-27.
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Evaluation by Expert Dancers of a Robot That Performs Partnered Stepping via Haptic Interaction. PLoS One. 2015; 10(5):e0125179.