Journal of International Psychiatry

Substance addiction is a chronic recurrent brain disease. Addicts usually evolve from accidental use to forced use. The adaptive change of the central nervous system makes individuals fall into the process from tolerance to craving and continuous relapse. The withdrawal process is very difficult. With the continuous progress of medical technology, non-invasive neural regulation technology is widely used in the clinical rehabilitation and treatment of various neuropsychiatric diseases, and has gradually become a potential method and means to treat addictive behavior. According to previous studies, tDCS can regulate the activity of cortical neurons by using constant and low-intensity current, which has a certain therapeutic effect on addictive diseases. After TMS treatment, the anxiety, desire and negative emotion of substance addicts were improved. This paper introduces the neural mechanism and normative methods of non-invasive brain regulation technology in the treatment of substance addiction.

Non invasive brain regulation; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Transcranial ultrasound stimulation; Substance addiction; review