Markus Rütgen

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Pain Management and Placebo Effect(23), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments(14), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments(13), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes(13), Empathy and Medical Education(11)

Publications41 total

Shared effects of the opioid antagonist naltrexone on first-hand and empathic pain
2025Open Access
The effects of different types of pain modulation on social emotions and behaviour - a systematic literature review
2025Open Access
Dissecting shared pain representations to understand their behavioral and clinical relevance
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
A pill as a quick solution: association between painkiller intake, empathy, and prosocial behavior
Scientific Reports·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
No robust association between self-reported common painkiller intake, empathy, and prosocial behavior
2023Open Access
Placebo Analgesia Reduces Costly Prosocial Helping to Lower Another Person’s Pain
Psychological Science·2022· 33 citedOpen Access
Effective connectivity reveals distinctive patterns in response to others’ genuine affective experience of disgust
NeuroImage·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
Placebo analgesia reduces costly prosocial helping to lower another’s pain
2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Effective connectivity reveals distinctive patterns in response to others’ genuine affective experience of disgust as compared to pain
2021Open Access
Neural dynamics between anterior insular cortex and right supramarginal gyrus dissociate genuine affect sharing from perceptual saliency of pretended pain
eLife·2021· 33 citedOpen Access
Author response: Neural dynamics between anterior insular cortex and right supramarginal gyrus dissociate genuine affect sharing from perceptual saliency of pretended pain
2021Open Access
The raw data of genuine and pretended pain task
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2021Open Access
The raw data of genuine and pretended pain task
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2021Open Access
Neural dynamics between anterior insular cortex and right supramarginal gyrus dissociate genuine affect sharing from automatic responses to pretended pain
2021Open Access
The administration of the opioid buprenorphine decreases motivational error signals
Psychoneuroendocrinology·2021· 4 citedOpen Access
Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data
Nature Communications·2021· 167 citedOpen Access
Association of different aspects of empathy and theory of mind with lifetime depression
Open Science Framework·2021Open Access
Placebo Analgesia Does Not Reduce Empathy for Naturalistic Depictions of Others’ Pain in a Somatosensory Specific Way
Cerebral Cortex Communications·2021· 10 citedOpen Access
Detached empathic experience of others’ pain in remitted states of depression – An fMRI study
NeuroImage Clinical·2021· 13 citedOpen Access
Placebo analgesia does not reduce empathy for naturalistic depictions of others’ pain in a somatosensory specific way
2020· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Claus Lamm(37), Ronald Sladky(10), Lei Zhang(9), Helena Hartmann(9), Christian Windischberger(8), Yili Zhao(8), I Riečanský(6), Allan Hummer(5), Isabella C. Wagner(5), Daniela M. Pfabigan(5), Federica Riva(5), Giorgia Silani(4), Carolina Pletti(4), Eva‐Maria Seidel(3), Predrag Petrović(3), Martin Tik(3), Christoph Kraus(3), Manfred Klöbl(3), Michael Woletz(3), Thomas Vanicek(3)