Department of Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Psychiatry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Sci Rep. 2024 Jun 17;14(1):13889. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-64886-9.
Children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) typically exhibit difficulties in emotion regulation. It has been shown that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) are crucially involved in these deficient processes. In this study, we aimed to explore the impact of electrical stimulation over the left dlPFC and right vmPFC on emotion regulation in children with ADHD. Twenty-four children with ADHD completed the Emotional Go/No-Go and Emotional 1-Back tasks while undergoing transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in three separate sessions, each with a different electrode placement: anodal dlPFC (F3)/cathodal vmPFC (Fp2), anodal vmPFC (Fp2)/cathodal dlPFC (F3), and sham stimulation. During both real tDCS conditions, the accuracy of pre-potent inhibitory control and working memory performance improved, but not speed. This study provides evidence that the left dlPFC and the right vmPFC are involved in emotion regulation in ADHD.
患有注意缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)的儿童通常在情绪调节方面存在困难。研究表明,背外侧前额叶皮层(dlPFC)和腹内侧前额叶皮层(vmPFC)在这些缺陷过程中起着至关重要的作用。在这项研究中,我们旨在探讨对左 dlPFC 和右 vmPFC 进行电刺激对 ADHD 儿童情绪调节的影响。24 名 ADHD 儿童在接受三种不同电极放置的经颅直流电刺激(tDCS)的三个单独疗程中完成了情绪 Go/No-Go 和情绪 1-Back 任务:左侧 dlPFC(F3)/右侧 vmPFC(Fp2)阳极刺激/阴极 vmPFC(Fp2)、右侧 vmPFC(Fp2)/左侧 dlPFC(F3)阳极刺激和假刺激。在真正的 tDCS 条件下,前强抑制控制和工作记忆性能的准确性都提高了,但速度没有提高。这项研究提供了证据,证明左 dlPFC 和右 vmPFC 参与了 ADHD 中的情绪调节。