Generative AI is getting so good at warping reality that even “cute animal” videos can be a gateway to something more insidious. I explain why this may work on normal brains, and suggest several firewalls to interrupt the hack. #AI #Neuroskyence open.substack.com/pub/dwaynego...

🍇 New paper 🍇 Ever felt like someone was in the room when no one was there? Together with @parkbmb.bsky.social @tatianabaxter.bsky.social we asked whether that might reflect misperceiving signals from our own beating heart - and if this relates to psychosis risk. doi.org/10.1159/0005...

Our new study on self-touch is out in IEEE TAFFC 🤩🥳🧠 A great effort by PhD student @adamenmalm.bsky.social in collaboration with @trinhnguyen.bsky.social We explore the differences between self-touch and touching-while-being-touched using fNIRS and self-report. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...

An amazing collection of articles in this book (also including my chapter on the Touched Body and the Experience of the Self) ⬇️😍 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #philsci

** 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)

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

#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

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

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

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" - 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-...

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

Happy to share that I got the prestigious Fernström prize for promising "young" (😅) researchers 🤩💛 liu.se/en/news-item...

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

Happy to share that I got the prestigious Fernström prize for promising "young" (😅) researchers 🤩💛 liu.se/en/news-item...

'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. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

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 🤩 🧠 🥰

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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 @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

"the humanities, and writing in particular, are quickly becoming an anachronistic art elective like basket-weaving" "the idea is that someday soon it’ll run on a wearable device, seeing, hearing, and reacting to everything in your environment. “Then, eventually, it’s just in your brain,..."

First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... Read here: rdcu.be/ek01F

🎈Our latest 🪅 We know that in addition to exteroceptive mechanisms, interoceptive chemosensation is also critical for regulating physiology/behavior. We find that an enteric neuron in worms senses ingested salts via a variant ionotropic receptor (IR like the fly IRs) to regulate salt stress. 1/n

People often claim psychedelics have been used globally, for millennia, & in rituals of psychological healing. In today's Guardian Long Read, I show what these stories get wrong & why the reality is far more interesting: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... From "Shamanism: The Timeless Religion"

Female bonobos form coalitions against males to secure their social status and reduce sex differences in power, according to a paper in Communications Biology. The study suggests the impact of male aggression is mitigated by females grouping together. go.nature.com/4d60a3f 🧪

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

What happens in the brain when we breathe? 🧠 🔄 🫁 🧠 The functional state of the brain fluctuates across the respiratory cycle 🫁 Brain activity can be volitionally influenced by varying the rate, depth, and pattern of breathing Read more ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social

Had the pleasure to give a lecture at Uppsala University last week 😊. I presented our recent study on ketamine and the self www.nature.com/articles/s41... and my upcoming clinical trial on psilocybin for complicated grief #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #philsci #psychedelics

Let's not overinterpret this behavior... but then again, everything is so sucky right now, everyone deserves some uplifting news: Mice do CPR on each other!!! 😍🤩🫀🐁😮😲💛

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 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #philsci

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence

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 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #philsci

New paper out 🤩⬇️🧠🫀👋

Wissenschaft "frei von Ideologie" in dem blöden Sondierungspapier, das wird alles so fürchterlich ☹️

🧠🍽️ #Amylin acts in the central amygdala (CeA) to regulate feeding & motivated behavior We show that CeA amylin signaling is critical for appetite suppression, macronutrient selection & body weight control. Disrupting this pathway leads to hyperphagia & weight gain. #Neuroskyence 🧪 #ObesityResearch

New paper out 🤩⬇️🧠🫀👋

Our paper @dulaclab.bsky.social on social homeostasis is online today! We characterized “social rebound” behavior after social isolation in multiple mouse strains and revealed its neural basis. Intriguingly, soft touch plays a key role in satisfying social need! www.nature.com/articles/s41...