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Men and women regulate negative emotions differently in the brain. Women use frontal networks for emotion regulation, while men use attention networks, despite similar success in reducing negative feelings.

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  • Affective Science

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  • Gender differences in emotion regulation (ER) are suggested but not well understood neurologically.
  • Functional connectivity (FC) offers a novel approach to investigate the neural basis of these differences.

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  • To explore gender-specific functional connectivity (FC) patterns during emotion regulation.
  • To correlate these FC patterns with self-reported negative affect and emotion suppression success.

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  • Region of interest (ROI) analysis was used to examine FC differences between men and women (N=48).
  • Participants viewed and regulated negative emotion induced by salient images.
  • FC patterns were analyzed in relation to negative affect and suppression success.

Main Results:

  • Women reported higher negative affect but achieved comparable suppression success to men.
  • Women showed stronger FC within the cingulo-opercular network during emotion regulation.
  • Men exhibited stronger FC within posterior ventral attentional network regions.

Conclusions:

  • Women may utilize frontal top-down control networks for emotion downregulation due to higher reactivity.
  • Men might employ posterior attention networks to redirect focus from negative stimuli.
  • Findings suggest distinct neural mechanisms for emotion regulation in men and women, with implications for affective disorders and treatment.