The main aim of this study was revealing the gender differences in the localization of the brain emotional centres for the positive and negative stimuli.

Forty right-handed young volunteers (age range 18-36 years), 21 men and 19 women were examined using the MR 1,5 T Signa Horizon (GEMS). Functional images were acquired using a spin-echo echoplanar sequence sensitive to blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast, with following parameters: TR=3000 ms, TE= 60 ms, FOV=28x21 cm, matrix 96x96,1 NEX.
For emotion induction affectivly negative, positive and neutral pictures were used.
Positive and negative cues were taken from the International Affecive Picture System (LAPS).
There were two runs, in the first run subjects saw only negatively valenced pictures, during the second run only positive pictures were shown.

For the positive stimuli the greatest differences in activation in woman compared to men we detected in the right superior temporal gyrus.
For the negative stimuli the greatest differences in activation in woman compared to men we detected in die left thalamus.
For the positive stimuli the greatest differences in activation in man compared to woman we detected in bilateral occipital lobes as well as bilateral fusiform gyrus.
For the negative stimuli the greatest differences in activation in man compared to woman we detected in left insula.

There are statistically significant differences in activation of the emotional centers between females and males for the positive and denoised, extracted and visualized.