"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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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Touch" by people in Profiles.
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Kang TW, Lee YJ, Rigo B, Soltis I, Lee J, Kim H, Wang G, Zavanelli N, Ayesh E, Sohail W, Majditehran H, Kozin SH, Hammond FL, Yeo WH. Soft Nanomembrane Sensor-Enabled Wearable Multimodal Sensing and Feedback System for Upper-Limb Sensory Impairment Assistance. ACS Nano. 2025 Feb 11; 19(5):5613-5628.
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Glass P, Rhoades D, Bohannon G, Joh RI, Pretzer-Aboff I, Park SH, Joung D. A synchronized event-cue feedback loop integrating a 3D printed wearable flexible sensor-tactor platform. Biosens Bioelectron. 2025 Apr 01; 273:117161.
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Tyree A, Bhatia A, Hong M, Hanna J, Kasper KA, Good B, Perez D, Govalla DN, Hunt A, Sathishkumaraselvam V, Hoffman JP, Rozenblit JW, Gutruf P. Biosymbiotic haptic feedback - Sustained long term human machine interfaces. Biosens Bioelectron. 2024 Oct 01; 261:116432.
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Schaaf RC, Wright KA, Mailloux Z, Grady P, Parham LD, Roley SS, Bundy A. Evaluation in Ayres Sensory Integration? (EASI) Tactile Perception Tests: Construct Validity and Internal Reliability. Am J Occup Ther. 2023 Jan 01; 77(1).
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Sinha S, Ganjei AY, Ustaoglu M, Syed ZA, Lee D, Myers JS, Fudemberg SJ, Razeghinejad R. Effect of shunt type on rates of tube-cornea touch and corneal decompensation after tube shunt surgery in uveitic glaucoma. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2021 Jun; 259(6):1587-1595.
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Tulipan J, Miller A, Park AG, Labrum JT, Ilyas AM. Touch Surgery: Analysis and Assessment of Validity of a Hand Surgery Simulation "App". Hand (N Y). 2019 05; 14(3):311-316.
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Weeks HM, Therrien AS, Bastian AJ. The cerebellum contributes to proprioception during motion. J Neurophysiol. 2017 08 01; 118(2):693-702.
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Wu B, Klatzky R, Lee R, Shivaprabhu V, Galeotti J, Siegel M, Schuman JS, Hollis R, Stetten G. Psychophysical evaluation of haptic perception under augmentation by a handheld device. Hum Factors. 2015 May; 57(3):523-37.
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Bark K, Hyman E, Tan F, Cha E, Jax SA, Buxbaum LJ, Kuchenbecker KJ. Effects of vibrotactile feedback on human learning of arm motions. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2015 Jan; 23(1):51-63.
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Buxbaum LJ, Dawson AM, Linsley D. Reliability and validity of the Virtual Reality Lateralized Attention Test in assessing hemispatial neglect in right-hemisphere stroke. Neuropsychology. 2012 Jul; 26(4):430-41.