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Rebecca Boehme
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Associate Professor in Neuroscience,🧠 self, body, mind 🦁 grief, neuropsychiatry, neurodiversity, psychedelics, somatosensation🫀 philosopher at heart 👩‍🔬PI @ BoehmeLab, Linköping, Sweden
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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jul 25
just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis

including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀

#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
@paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social
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Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels
Molecular Psychiatry - Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels
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Sensory processing sensitivity: theory, evidence, and directions

Review by Corina Greven, MacKenzie Trupp (@mactrupp.bsky.social), Judith Homberg, & Heleen Slagter (@haslagter.bsky.social)

Free access before Dec 23: tinyurl.com/43y9yzcb
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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tahnee-engelen.bsky.social
So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system.
#interoception #neuroskyence
plosbiology.org PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 1d
How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
Top: Experimental set up. Single pulses of TMS were applied to the hand area of the right primary motor cortex with an inter-pulse interval randomized between 6 and 10 s. Simultaneously, the neuronavigated coil position (yellow), electrocardiogram (red), respiratory signal (blue), electrogastrogram (green), and electromyography from the left hand (gray) were recorded. The figure shows traces of a 20-s time segment from one participant of the cardiac (raw), respiratory (filtered), gastric (filtered), and EMG (raw) signals. The experimental measure was the Motor Evoked Potential amplitude measured on a hand muscle (first dorsal interosseous), analyzed against the phase of the cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms. Note that the three rhythms have very different periods (~1 s for the heart, ~ 5 s for respiration, and ~20 s for the gastric rhythm). Bottom: Artwork illustrating how rhythms of the internal organs interact with the moment-to-moment fluctuations observed in corticospinal motor excitability. Image depicts an outline of a brain with representations of the three rhythmic organs influencing the motor system: the heart, lungs, and stomach. Image credit: Tahnée Engelen.
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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On Wednesday I got to go to Lund for a wonderful ceremony as part of forskningsdagen for receiving the Eric K. Fernström prize. There was fancy dinner, the student choire, and even a trumpet fanfare 🤩 🥰 🧠 .

Here is a video:

www.youtube.com/live/Z-8rM5h...
Forskningens dag 2025
YouTube video by Lund University
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November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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"Philosophie als Kritik und Lebenspraxis" - eine Aufsatzsammlung zur Aktualität der Philosophie meines Vaters, Gernot Böhme.

Herausgegeben von mir, Ute Gahlings, Alfred Nordmann, Dieter Mersch und Gregor Schiemann.

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#philsky
#Buchbubble
#GermanBookSky
#Buchtipp
Philosophie als Kritik und Lebenspraxis | Buch | Online kaufen
Philosophie als Kritik und Lebenspraxis: Zur Aktualität der Philosophie Gernot Böhmes ✔ Buch von Rebecca Böhme, Ute Gahlings, Dieter Mersch, Alfred Nordmann, Gregor Schiemann ✔ Gebundene Ausgabe ✔ 480...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Here is me speaking Swedish on Swedish national TV 😅🫣😶‍🌫️ for a series on smartphone use www.svtplay.se/skarmfri-pa-...
October 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Psychedelics alter neurovascular coupling, which means we need to critically re-evaluate fMRI findings of acute psychedelic effects
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
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Psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonism alters neurovascular coupling and differentially affects neuronal and hemodynamic measures of brain function - Nature Neuroscience
Padawer-Curry et al. show that the hallucinogenic 5-HT2A receptor agonist DOI alters neurovascular coupling in mice, with implications for the interpretation of human fMRI studies of psychedelics.
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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My clinical trial, PGD-psi: psilocybin for prolonged grief, is live 🤩!
First screening done, several more booked.

The first EU-funded psychedelics study btw 😊

#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
#grief
#psychedelics
#psilocybin
rebeccaboehme.bsky.social Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Sep 22
I'm incredibly grateful to receive funding from
the ERC to investigate self-related processes during grief and to study whether psilocybin could be a novel treatment for those who need support with integrating their loss experiences. 💛🧠🍄💛
#Neuroskyence #PsychSci
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October 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Happy to share that I got the prestigious Fernström prize for promising "young" (😅) researchers 🤩💛

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Rebecca Böhme awarded prize for her research
Associate Professor Rebecca Böhme has been named the recipient of the Eric K. Fernström Prize 2025 for young, particularly promising and successful researchers at Linköping University.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Jane Goodall died yesterday😢💛
October 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
rebeccaboehme.bsky.social
Happy to share that I got the prestigious Fernström prize for promising "young" (😅) researchers 🤩💛

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Rebecca Böhme awarded prize for her research
Associate Professor Rebecca Böhme has been named the recipient of the Eric K. Fernström Prize 2025 for young, particularly promising and successful researchers at Linköping University.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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kinlika.bsky.social
'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol

2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.

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No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children
In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Springer has overwritten my articles doi with some correction on a different article and has not rectified this since more than a month. 😫 They keep promising to fix it and nothing happens 😡

If anyone wants to read it, email me or request it through researchgate! 🤗
September 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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persbodyimage.bsky.social
Now Rebecca Boehme shows that TMS stimulation of the extra-striate body area prior to intensive perceptual training led to significant improvement in body satisfaction AND more 'normal' neural responses to own-body touch post training.

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September 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Do you think @paulasalamone.bsky.social et al.’s findings of pervasive sensory and self-interoception disturbances in psychotic patients may suggest that enhanced sensory integration therapies can alleviate hallmark psychosis symptoms? bit.ly/459f4mV #PRF
August 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
rebeccaboehme.bsky.social
Looking forward to presenting our recent study on ketamine and the sense of self as well as my upcoming clinical trial on psilocybin for complicated/prolonged grief at the Borealis summit in Stockholm in 2 weeks 🤩 🧠 🥰
September 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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hadas.bsky.social
how it feels to have an article published
August 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Thanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on #layer specific changes in #sensory #cortex across the #lifespan in #humans & #mice now out in @natneuro.nature.com Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6
August 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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persbodyimage.bsky.social
Our draft programme is now released! Check out our amazing speakers and their fascinating talks.

lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives...

And remember you can sign up here: lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives...
PiBI Draft Programme - ACE lab
Perspectives in Body Image (PiBI) International Online Conference 16th-18th Sept 2025 PROGRAMME (draft) All times in British Summer Time (BST), all sessions are held online (Zoom), other activities on...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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very related preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." 😧
July 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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2000 USD publication fee and nobody at the journal noticed the typo in the title? 😧😒
(not the authors fault of course)
((looks like an interesting paper btw, fits very well with our recent publication on impaired processing of self-generated sensations in SZ))
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The neurofucntional abnormalities of temporal gyrus underly impaired sensory attenuation in schizophrenia during action-outcome contingent paradigm - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The neurofucntional abnormalities of temporal gyrus underly impaired sensory attenuation in schizophrenia during action-outcome contingent paradigm
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July 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Boehme
rebeccaboehme.bsky.social
just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis

including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀

#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
@paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exN0e
Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels
Molecular Psychiatry - Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels
rdcu.be
July 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
rebeccaboehme.bsky.social
just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis

including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀

#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
@paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exN0e
Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels
Molecular Psychiatry - Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels
rdcu.be
July 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Reposted by Rebecca Boehme
bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social
Next at #BRNet: short talks, starting with Reinoud Kaldewaij on TMS treatment for altered body image in patients with Anorexia
July 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Reposted by Rebecca Boehme
paulasalamone.bsky.social
Thanks for the photo 😅 (as I am behind some of the post at BRNet this week with Laura and Marie)

We are super happy to share this self-touch / interoception research study in psychosis 🎉 from Rebecca Boehme’s lab
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bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4
Next talk: Paula Salamone on bodily self alterations in Psychosis at #brain and #spine. At #BRNet2025
July 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
rebeccaboehme.bsky.social
Today we held the initiation meeting for my study "PGD-psi" on psilocybin for prolonged / complicated grief 😊

Recruitment staring soon 😍🧠🤩

#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
#grief
#psychedelics
#psilocybin
rebeccaboehme.bsky.social Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Sep 22
I'm incredibly grateful to receive funding from
the ERC to investigate self-related processes during grief and to study whether psilocybin could be a novel treatment for those who need support with integrating their loss experiences. 💛🧠🍄💛
#Neuroskyence #PsychSci
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June 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM