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Overview

Ulrike Bingel is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and neuroscience, with a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience and related subfields such as psychiatry and mental health, physiology, complementary and alternative medicine, and pharmacology.

Their work extensively covers topics related to pain management and placebo effects, pain mechanisms and treatments, complementary and alternative medicine studies, empathy and medical education, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, functional brain connectivity studies, and pediatric pain management techniques.

Recent publications by Ulrike Bingel include:

  • Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Multivariate BWAS can be replicable with moderate sample sizes, 2023, Nature
  • Pain-free resting-state functional brain connectivity predicts individual pain sensitivity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Placebo 2.0: the impact of expectations on analgesic treatment outcome, 2020, Pain
  • What Should Clinicians Tell Patients about Placebo and Nocebo Effects? Practical Considerations Based on Expert Consensus, 2020, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Co-authorship patterns indicate frequent collaboration with a set of researchers including Tamás Spisák, Katharina Schmidt, Julian Kleine-Borgmann, Bálint Kincses, and Katja Wiech. These partnerships have contributed to a substantial number of publications across several domains.

Ulrike Bingel's publishing venues reflect a focus on both specialized and broad scientific audiences. The most common venues include:

  • Pain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Der Schmerz
  • Scientific Reports

The scientist has also contributed to scholarly books, notably through a publication with Springer Nature titled "Der Placebo-Effekt," scheduled for release in 2025.

Overall, the research scope of Ulrike Bingel centers on understanding pain regulation processes, the neurological basis of placebo effects, and the development of therapeutic and clinical applications based on these insights. The integration of functional brain connectivity and clinical outcomes forms a key area of their work, positioning this scientist within the interdisciplinary interface of neuroscience, medicine, and psychology.

Best Publications

  • Activation of the Opioidergic Descending Pain Control System Underlies Placebo Analgesia

    Falk Eippert;Ulrike Bingel;Eszter D. Schoell;Juliana Yacubian

  • The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil

    Ulrike Bingel;Ulrike Bingel;Vishvarani Wanigasekera;Katja Wiech;Roisin Ni Mhuircheartaigh

  • The placebo response in medicine: minimize, maximize or personalize?

    Paul Enck;Ulrike Bingel;Manfred Schedlowski;Winfried Rief

  • Mechanisms of placebo analgesia: rACC recruitment of a subcortical antinociceptive network.

    U. Bingel;J. Lorenz;E. Schoell;C. Weiller

  • Direct Evidence for Spinal Cord Involvement in Placebo Analgesia

    Falk Eippert;Jürgen Finsterbusch;Ulrike Bingel;Christian Büchel

  • Implications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus.

    Andrea W M Evers;Luana Colloca;Charlotte Blease;Marco Annoni

  • Anterior Insula Integrates Information about Salience into Perceptual Decisions about Pain

    Katja Wiech;Chia Shu Lin;Kay H. Brodersen;Ulrike Bingel;Ulrike Bingel

  • Imaging CNS Modulation of Pain in Humans

    Ulrike Bingel;Ulrike Bingel;Irene Tracey

  • Neuro-Bio-Behavioral Mechanisms of Placebo and Nocebo Responses: Implications for Clinical Trials and Clinical Practice

    Manfred Schedlowski;Paul Enck;Winfried Rief;Ulrike Bingel

  • Habituation to painful stimulation involves the antinociceptive system.

    U. Bingel;E. Schoell;W. Herken;C. Büchel

  • Subcortical structures involved in pain processing: evidence from single-trial fMRI.

    U Bingel;M Quante;R Knab;B Bromm

  • Placebo analgesia: Psychological and neurobiological mechanisms

    Luana Colloca;Regine Klinger;Herta Flor;Ulrike Bingel

  • Prestimulus functional connectivity determines pain perception in humans

    Markus Ploner;Michael C. Lee;Katja Wiech;Ulrike Bingel

  • Changes in brain gray matter due to repetitive painful stimulation.

    S. Teutsch;W. Herken;Ulrike Bingel;Eszter D. Schoell

  • Attention Modulates Spinal Cord Responses to Pain

    Christian Sprenger;Falk Eippert;Jürgen Finsterbusch;Ulrike Bingel

  • Improving Methodological Standards in Behavioral Interventions for Cognitive Enhancement

    C. Shawn Green;Daphne Bavelier;Arthur F. Kramer;Arthur F. Kramer;Sophia Vinogradov

  • Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome Have Altered Emotional Modulation of Neural Responses to Visceral Stimuli

    Sigrid Elsenbruch;Christina Rosenberger;Ulrike Bingel;Michael Forsting

  • The Placebo Effect: Advances from Different Methodological Approaches

    Karin Meissner;Ulrike Bingel;Luana Colloca;Tor D. Wager

  • Somatotopic organization of human somatosensory cortices for pain: a single trial fMRI study.

    U. Bingel;J. Lorenz;Volkmar Glauche;René Knab

  • Avoiding Nocebo Effects to Optimize Treatment Outcome

    Ulrike Bingel

  • Supplementary Materials for The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil

    Ulrike Bingel;Vishvarani Wanigasekera;Katja Wiech;Roisin Ni Mhuircheartaigh

Frequent Co-Authors

Katja Wiech
Katja Wiech University of Oxford
Markus Ploner
Markus Ploner Technical University of Munich
Manfred Schedlowski
Manfred Schedlowski University of Duisburg-Essen
Christian Büchel
Christian Büchel University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Irene Tracey
Irene Tracey University of Oxford
Michael Forsting
Michael Forsting University of Duisburg-Essen
Tor D. Wager
Tor D. Wager Dartmouth College
Elke R. Gizewski
Elke R. Gizewski Innsbruck Medical University
Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg
Arne May
Arne May Universität Hamburg

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