Markus Rütgen

The paper investigates neural responses to genuine vs. pretended disgust using effective connectivity and finds distinct brain network involvement compared to pain empathy.

This study investigates whether placebo analgesia affects empathy for pain by examining neural responses to naturalistic depictions of others' pain in a somatotopically matched manner.

This study investigates whether placebo analgesia affects affective touch and pain empathy, finding domain-general effects for touch but pain-specific opioidergic modulation for pain empathy.

This study investigates whether placebo analgesia affects the sensory-discriminative component of empathy for pain and finds no evidence of such effects.

The paper investigates how hippocampal-neocortical pattern similarity and connectivity contribute to pain empathy using fMRI data from human participants.

This study shows that placebo-induced pain reduction is linked to inverse coupling between sensory-motor and salience networks during rest in humans.