Neural Responses to Reward in a Gambling Task : Sex Differences and Individual Variation in Reward-Driven Impulsivity

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Previous work suggests sex differences in reward sensitivity. However, it remains unclear how men and women differ in the neural processes of reward-driven impulsivity. With a data set of 968 subjects (502 women) curated from the Human Connectome Project, we investigated sex differences in regional activations to reward and to punishment in a gambling task. Individual variations in reward-driven impulsivity were quantified by the difference in reaction time between reward and punishment blocks in the gambling task, as well as by a behavioral measure of delay discounting. At a corrected threshold, men and women exhibited significant differences in regional activations to reward and to punishment. Longer reaction times during reward versus punishment blocks, indicative of more cautious responding, were associated with left-hemispheric lateral prefrontal cortical activation to reward in men but not women. Steeper discounting was associated with higher activation to reward in the right-hemispheric dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and angular gyrus in women but not men. These sex differences were confirmed in slope tests. Together, the results highlight the sex-specific neural processes of reward-driven impulsivity with left-hemispheric prefrontal cortex supporting impulse control in men and right-hemispheric saliency circuit playing a more important role in diminished impulse control in women.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:1

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Cerebral cortex communications - 1(2020), 1 vom: 25., Seite tgaa025

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Guangfei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Le, Thang M [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Xiaoying [VerfasserIn]
Li, Chiang-Shan R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Delay discounting
FMRI
Gender
HCP
Journal Article
Punishment

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Date Revised 12.11.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/texcom/tgaa025

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NLM314377514