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.