 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 G11.561.790.850
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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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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2016 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 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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Smith MC, Reed SM. A Unitary Theory of Healing Through Touch. ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 2023 Apr-Jun 01; 46(2):219-232.
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Mumma J, Liu F, Ng NL, Morgan J, Lane M, Gannon P. Designing better cloth masks: The effect of fabric and attachment-style on discomfort. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2023 01; 20(1):23-32.
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Reddan MC, Young H, Falkner J, L?pez-Sol? M, Wager TD. Touch and social support influence interpersonal synchrony and pain. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2020 11 10; 15(10):1064-1075.
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Xie AX, Madayag A, Minton SK, McCarthy KD, Malykhina AP. Sensory satellite glial Gq-GPCR activation alleviates inflammatory pain via peripheral adenosine 1 receptor activation. Sci Rep. 2020 08 25; 10(1):14181.
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Chinn LK, Noonan CF, Lockman JJ. The Human Face Becomes Mapped as a Sensorimotor Reaching Space During the First Year. Child Dev. 2021 03; 92(2):760-773.
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L?pez-Sol? M, Geuter S, Koban L, Coan JA, Wager TD. Brain mechanisms of social touch-induced analgesia in females. Pain. 2019 09; 160(9):2072-2085.
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Michaelson SD, Ozkan ED, Aceti M, Maity S, Llamosas N, Weldon M, Mizrachi E, Vaissiere T, Gaffield MA, Christie JM, Holder JL, Miller CA, Rumbaugh G. SYNGAP1 heterozygosity disrupts sensory processing by reducing touch-related activity within somatosensory cortex circuits. Nat Neurosci. 2018 12; 21(12):1-13.
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Kodama WA, Xu Z, Metcalf JL, Song SJ, Harrison N, Knight R, Carter DO, Happy CB. Trace Evidence Potential in Postmortem Skin Microbiomes: From Death Scene to Morgue. J Forensic Sci. 2019 May; 64(3):791-798.
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Goldstein P, Weissman-Fogel I, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The role of touch in regulating inter-partner physiological coupling during empathy for pain. Sci Rep. 2017 06 12; 7(1):3252.
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Collins KL, Guterstam A, Cronin J, Olson JD, Ehrsson HH, Ojemann JG. Ownership of an artificial limb induced by electrical brain stimulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 01 03; 114(1):166-171.
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