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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 8d

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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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 6d

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Jane Goodall died yesterday😢💛

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 7d

I am still young on the picture they used for the article, so maybe that's what counts 🤪

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 8d

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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Kinlika @kinlika.bsky.social · 16d

'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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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 19d

oh look, it is back. Maybe complaining publicly helped 😀
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The Touched Body and the Experience of Self

Slow caressing of the skin activates C-tactile fibers in the periphery and the posterior insula cortex. Because of this, Bud Craig considered affective touch to be an interoceptive modality. Through t...

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 21d

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! 🤗

Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Mar 12

My chapter on touch and the bodily self is now out 🤩 🧠😍

It is a part of a book commemorating the late Bud Craig by @marcwittmann.bsky.social , Irina Strigo, and Alan Simmons

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The Touched Body and the Experience of Self

Slow caressing of the skin activates C-tactile fibers in the periphery and the posterior insula cortex. Because of this, Bud Craig considered affective touch to be an interoceptive modality. Through t...

link.springer.com

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Perspectives in Body Image @persbodyimage.bsky.social · 21d

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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Pain Research Forum @painresforum.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 28d

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 🤩 🧠 🥰

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Aug 28

It might be more a question of adaptability of interoceptive focus and interpretation of these signals than - as you say - a baseline alteration that you can measure under resting conditions. Very excited to see how you will follow this up :)

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Aug 28

very interesting! 🤩

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · Aug 16

how it feels to have an article published

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Esther Kuehn @estherkuehn.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

DZNE research center @dzne.science · Aug 11

🧠 The human brain ages less than thought and in layers – at least in the area of the cortex responsible for the sense of touch. See study @natneuro.nature.com by @estherkuehn.bsky.social and colleagues at DZNE, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de:

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the lifespan in mice and humans - Nature Neuroscience

The principal layer architecture of the sensory cortex is altered with aging. The authors show that overall thinning of the primary somatosensory cortex is driven by deep layer degeneration but that l...

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Perspectives in Body Image @persbodyimage.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our draft programme is now released! Check out our amazing speakers and their fascinating talks.

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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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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thanks 🤗

Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our data show specific alterations of self-generated sensations across different sensory modalities (touch and interoception) and at different processing stages (spinal and cortical), supporting the hypothesis of schizophrenia as a self-disorder.

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jul 31

We also find differences in heartbeat evoked potentials, which are larger for interoceptive focus.

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jul 31

We find that psychosis patients exhibit more neural activity in response to self-touch in STG and a reduced difference in latencies for SEPs during self- and other-touch already at the spinal cord level.
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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jul 31

Interesting! I recently discovered Baudrillard and am a big fan 😅. Cool to see thoughts on how this applies to neuroscience!

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jul 28

very related preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." 😧

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jul 27

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))
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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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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🧠🫀

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@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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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
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

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

Next at #BRNet: short talks, starting with Reinoud Kaldewaij on TMS treatment for altered body image in patients with Anorexia

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