Adam Enmalm

PhD student

I am a research assistant in Dr. Rebecca Böhme's and Håkan Olausson's groups. My background is in cognitive neuroscience, and I am currently involved in several ongoing projects investigating touch and self-other distinction.

Publications

2026

Adam Enmalm, Eleonora Vagnoni, Patrick Falk, Aikaterini Fotopoulou, Rebecca Böhme (2026)

Predictability and Agency Shape Self-Touch Perception Collabra: Psychology, Vol. 12 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/collabra.160692

Adam Enmalm (2026)

Multimodal investigation of bodily self-perception through touch: from neuro-cognitive mechanisms to pathology (Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary)

https://dx.doi.org/10.3384/9789181184020

Adam Enmalm, Trinh Nguyen, Rebecca Böhme (2026)

Self-Touch is Different From Giving and Receiving Touch Simultaneously - Insights From Neural, Behavioral, and Physiological Measures IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. 17, p. 991-1003 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2025.3642367

2025

Paula Salamone, Adam Enmalm, Reinoud Kaldewaij, Marie Åman, Charlotte Medley, Michal Pietrzak, Håkan Olausson, Andrea Johansson Capusan, Rebecca Böhme (2025)

Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels Molecular Psychiatry, Vol. 30, p. 5417-5426 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-03130-w

2024

Reinoud Kaldewaij, Paula Salamone, Adam Enmalm, Lars Östman Vasko, Michal Pietrzak, Hanna Karlsson, Andreas Löfberg, Emelie Gauffin, Martin Samuelsson, Sarah Gustavson, Andrea Johansson Capusan, Håkan Olausson, Markus Heilig, Rebecca Böhme (2024)

Ketamine reduces the neural distinction between self- and other-produced affective touch: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study Neuropsychopharmacology, Vol. 49, p. 1767-1774 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41386-024-01906-2

Research

I am part of the following research groups

The Böhme Lab

We investigate how the experience of “self” is generated by the brain and body – and what happens if self-other-distinction is altered in psychiatric conditions or through experimental interventions.

The Morrison Lab: The Embodied Brain Lab.

The Olausson Lab

Human touch is a powerful way of evoking emotions. What is the functional significance of the system for ultrafast nociceptors that we recently discovered? How does the nervous system distinguish social and self-touch? Our lab is looking for answers.

Organisation

A researcher is looking at encased samples in a lab.

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience - CSAN

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN) integrates knowledge and methodology from different areas of basic and clinical neuroscience.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.