Markus Rütgen

Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain

Markus Rütgen, Eva‐Maria Seidel, Giorgia Silani et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · 220 citations · Full text

Reduction of Empathy for Pain by Placebo Analgesia Suggests Functional Equivalence of Empathy and First-Hand Emotion Experience

Markus Rütgen, Eva‐Maria Seidel, I. Rie ansky et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2015 · 120 citations · Full text

Pain Therapy, Pain Medicine, Affective Neuroscience +21

Psychopharmacological modulation of event-related potentials suggests that first-hand pain and empathy for pain rely on similar opioidergic processes

Markus Rütgen, Eva‐Maria Seidel, Carolina Pletti et al. · Neuropsychologia · 2017 · 45 citations

First-hand Pain, Psychiatry, Behavioral Neuroscience +14

Beyond Sharing Unpleasant Affect—Evidence for Pain-Specific Opioidergic Modulation of Empathy for Pain

Markus Rütgen, Eva-Maria Wirth, I Riečanský et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2020 · 41 citations · Full text

Pain Therapy, Pain Disorders, Pain Empathy +20

Antidepressant treatment, not depression, leads to reductions in behavioral and neural responses to pain empathy

Markus Rütgen, Carolina Pletti, Martin Tik et al. · Translational Psychiatry · 2019 · 36 citations · Full text