 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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| 1985 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1988 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2014 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Touch" by people in Profiles.
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Ochoa N, Gogola GR, Gorniak SL. Contribution of tactile dysfunction to manual motor dysfunction in type II diabetes. Muscle Nerve. 2016 Nov; 54(5):895-902.
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Lee BC, Thrasher TA, Layne CS, Martin BJ. Vibrotactile cuing revisited to reveal a possible challenge to sensorimotor adaptation. Exp Brain Res. 2016 Dec; 234(12):3523-3530.
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Dettmer M, Pourmoghaddam A, Lee BC, Layne CS. Effects of aging and tactile stochastic resonance on postural performance and postural control in a sensory conflict task. Somatosens Mot Res. 2015; 32(2):128-35.
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Ochoa N, Gorniak SL. Changes in sensory function and force production in adults with type II diabetes. Muscle Nerve. 2014 Dec; 50(6):984-90.
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Li L, Brockmeier AJ, Choi JS, Francis JT, Sanchez JC, PrÃncipe JC. A tensor-product-kernel framework for multiscale neural activity decoding and control. Comput Intell Neurosci. 2014; 2014:870160.
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von Kraus LM, Francis JT. Electronically induced contrast enhancement in whisker S1 cortical response fields. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014; 2014:2601-4.
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Coskun MA, Loveland KA, Pearson DA, Papanicolaou AC, Sheth BR. Interaction of finger representations in the cortex of individuals with autism: a functional window into cortical inhibition. Autism Res. 2013 Dec; 6(6):542-9.
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Song W, Francis JT. Tactile information processing in primate hand somatosensory cortex (S1) during passive arm movement. J Neurophysiol. 2013 Nov; 110(9):2061-70.
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Song W, Kerr CC, Lytton WW, Francis JT. Cortical plasticity induced by spike-triggered microstimulation in primate somatosensory cortex. PLoS One. 2013; 8(3):e57453.
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Coskun MA, Loveland KA, Pearson DA, Papanicolaou AC, Sheth BR. Functional assays of local connectivity in the somatosensory cortex of individuals with autism. Autism Res. 2013 Jun; 6(3):190-200.
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