Rebecca Boehme

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning - Nature Neuroscience Dopamine encoding of reward prediction errors naturally fluctuates over females’ reproductive cycles with estrogenic signaling due to reduced expression of dopamine reuptake proteins.

Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#blueprint 1/7

Philosophie als Kritik und Lebenspraxis | E-Book | Online kaufen Philosophie als Kritik und Lebenspraxis: Zur Aktualität der Philosophie Gernot Böhmes ✔ E-Book von Rebecca Böhme, Ute Gahlings, Dieter Mersch, Alfred Nordmann, Gregor Schiemann ✔ Open Access (PDF) ✔ 4...

#openaccess Neuerscheinung: Sammelband zu Gernot Böhmes Philosophie, herausgegeben von @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social u.a. In meinem Beitrag verteidige ich den Begriff der #Natur mithilfe der #Ökophänomenologie gegen Positionen, die behaupten im #Anthropozän wäre Natur an ihr Ende gekommen.
#philsky

Is that true?! I don't think I know anyone who does this, independent of age. A cultural difference? A blackberry-generation artifact? Maybe general disdain for rules? 🤔

I know this is not the main point here, but I am wondering:
Do these rich and famous not have any email etiquette? 🧐

They never say hi or bye and there are so many typos and so many abbreviations... is this the communicative code in certain circles? 🤔

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

this looks very cool, congrats 🤩

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

Forskningens dag 2025 YouTube video by Lund University

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...

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...

"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.

www.herder.de/wissen/shop/...
#philsky
#Buchbubble
#GermanBookSky
#Buchtipp

Here is me speaking Swedish on Swedish national TV 😅🫣😶‍🌫️ for a series on smartphone use www.svtplay.se/skarmfri-pa-...

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.

Psychedelics alter neurovascular coupling, which means we need to critically re-evaluate fMRI findings of acute psychedelic effects
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

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.

Happy to share that I got the prestigious Fernström prize for promising "young" (😅) researchers 🤩💛

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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😢💛

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

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.

Happy to share that I got the prestigious Fernström prize for promising "young" (😅) researchers 🤩💛

liu.se/en/news-item...

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...

'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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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...

oh look, it is back. Maybe complaining publicly helped 😀
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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! 🤗

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.

@rebeccaboehme.bsky.social

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

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 🤩 🧠 🥰

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 :)

very interesting! 🤩

how it feels to have an article published

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

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...

Thanks 🤗

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.