Gender_Functional_Connectivity_Dataset

fMRI dataset from 48 healthy men and women (20 F) undergoing emotion regulation task (view/suppress emotional reaction to emotional pictures) and self-reported negative affect behavioral data.

We were interested in whether men and women differed in their functional connectivity (FC) pattern while viewing versus regulating negative emotion induced by highly salient pictures, and whether this pattern related to their self-reported negative affect and suppression success. Despite women reporting more negative affect, both genders had comparable suppression success. Moreover, differences emerged between men and women’s FC patterns. During the regulation of negative emotion, better suppression in women was associated with stronger FC within a cingulo-opercular network, while men exhibited stronger FC within posterior regions of the ventral attentional network. We conclude that due to their propensity for higher emotional reactivity, women may employ a frontal top-down control network to downregulate negative emotion, while men may redirect attention away from the aversive stimulus by using posterior regions of the ventral attention network.

本研究的功能磁共振成像（fMRI）数据集来自48名健康男女（其中女性20名），所有受试者均完成了情绪调节任务（观看情绪图片并抑制自身情绪反应），并收集了包含自我报告负性情绪的行为数据。

本研究旨在探究男女在观看高显著性情绪图片诱发的负性情绪，以及对该情绪进行调节时的功能连接（FC）模式是否存在差异，同时分析该模式是否与受试者自我报告的负性情绪水平及情绪抑制效果相关。尽管女性自我报告的负性情绪水平更高，但两性的情绪抑制效果并无显著差异。

此外，男女的功能连接模式存在显著差异。在负性情绪调节过程中，女性的情绪抑制效果越好，其扣带回-盖网络（cingulo-opercular network）内的功能连接强度越高；而男性则表现出腹侧注意网络（ventral attentional network）后部区域更强的功能连接。

综上，鉴于女性天生具有更高的情绪反应性，她们可能通过前额叶自上而下控制网络来下调负性情绪；而男性则可借助腹侧注意网络的后部区域，将注意力从厌恶性刺激上转移开来，从而实现情绪调节。