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

Markus Rütgen, Eva‐Maria Seidel, Giorgia Silani, +5

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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, +1

Journal of Neuroscience

Pain TherapyPain MedicineAffective NeuroscienceEmpathyNeuropathic Pain +19

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, +4

Neuropsychologia

First-hand PainPsychiatryBehavioral NeurosciencePain MedicineMedicine +12

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

Markus Rütgen, Eva-Maria Wirth, I Riečanský, +5

Cerebral Cortex

Pain TherapyPain DisordersPain EmpathyPain MedicineAffective Neuroscience +18

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

Markus Rütgen, Carolina Pletti, Martin Tik, +9

Translational Psychiatry

Neural dynamics between anterior insular cortex and right supramarginal gyrus dissociate genuine affect sharing from perceptual saliency of pretended pain

Yili Zhao, Lei Zhang, Markus Rütgen, +2

eLife

NeuropsychologyPain MedicineAffective NeuroscienceEmpathyNeuropathic Pain +22

Placebo Analgesia Reduces Costly Prosocial Helping to Lower Another Person’s Pain

Helena Hartmann, Paul Forbes, Markus Rütgen, +1

Psychological Science

Pattern similarity and connectivity of hippocampal-neocortical regions support empathy for pain

Isabella C. Wagner, Markus Rütgen, Claus Lamm

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Another's pain in my brain: No evidence that placebo analgesia affects the sensory-discriminative component in empathy for pain

Helena Hartmann, Markus Rütgen, Federica Riva, +1

NeuroImage

Placebo-induced pain reduction is associated with negative coupling between brain networks at rest

Isabella C. Wagner, Markus Rütgen, Allan Hummer, +2

NeuroImage