The effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation on the brain-behavioral systems of adolescents with high-risk behaviors

Askarimehrabadi, Elham; Lak Chalsepary, Ghazal; Dehghan, Hamidreza; Sharifi Borujerdi, Maryam

doi:10.30491/ijtmgh.2024.477783.1428

The effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation on the brain-behavioral systems of adolescents with high-risk behaviors

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Elham Askarimehrabadi ¹

Ghazal Lak Chalsepary ²

Hamidreza Dehghan ³

Maryam Sharifi Borujerdi ⁴

¹ MA in clinical psychology, Department of Psychology, Roudhen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² PhD candidate in Psychology, Department of Psychology, UAE Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dubai, UA

³ Department of Psychology and Counseling, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Ph.D. in Psychology, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran

10.30491/ijtmgh.2024.477783.1428

Abstract

Objectives: Risky behavior includes a series of behaviors that not only cause serious harm to the person involved in this behavior and the important people in her life, but also cause unintentional harm to other innocent people. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation on the brain-behavioral systems of adolescents with high-risk behaviors.
Methods: This research was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test with the control group, and a follow-up Study. The participants consisted of the research included all male students of the second secondary level with high-risk behaviors in Tabriz city in the academic year of 2019-2020. The research sample included 30 students with high-risk behaviors (15 in the experimental group and 15 in the control group). To collect data, the high-risk behavior questionnaire of Iranian adolescents and brain-behavioral systems were used. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS-23 software and analysis of variance with repeated measurements.
Results: Pairwise comparison results showed that direct transcranial current stimulation treatment had an effect on behavioral inhibition (P<0.01) and activation (P<0.01) systems.
Discussion: According to the findings of this research, it was found that transcranial direct current stimulation had an effect on the brain-behavioral systems of students with high-risk behaviors.

Keywords

Transcranial direct current stimulation

brain-behavioral systems

high-risk behaviors