3.3.2 Group and sex differences in emotional cue reactivity and
the relationship with subjective changes in negative affect
Repeated measures analyses investigating neural activation within the
ROIs, with CU group and sex as independent factors and FD as covariate
of non-interest, demonstrated that emotional cues significantly
increased neural activation in the DS (p = .01,
η2 = .06) and amygdala (p < .001,
η2 = .22) (see Fig. 3B). Moreover, emotional
cue-induced activation of the amygdala was significantly stronger in
females compared to males (p = .046, η2 = .04).
Emotional cue induced neural activation of the ROIs did not differ
between CUs and non-CUs.