Impact of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on the Visual Sustain Attention of ADHD Student-Athletes

Amouzadeh, Fereshteh; Moradi, Hadi; Gharayagh Zandi, Hassan; Rostami, Reza; Moghadamzadeh, Ali

doi:10.22059/jmlm.2021.325671.1586

Document Type : Research Paper I Open Access I Released under CC BY-NC 4.0 license

Authors

¹ Department of Motor Behavior and Sports Psychology, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Machine Intelligence and Robotics, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran,

³ Department of Motor Behavior and Sports Psychology, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

⁴ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

⁵ Department of Curriculum Development & Instruction Methods, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22059/jmlm.2021.325671.1586

Abstract

Introduction: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is common in the general and sports population. The prime objective of the current study was to compare the impact of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on the visual sustained attention of ADHD student-athletes.
Methods: In this study, among the 79 children diagnosed with ADHD, 45 students were randomly selected and divided into three 15-person Sham, control, and experimental groups. All subjects in the Sham and experimental groups received ten sessions of two different types of anodal and sham stimulations over the F3 area and cathode excitation over the Supraorbital (SO) area with 1 mA current for 15 minutes. After ten sessions, each group was re-examined. After 40 days, a follow-up test was performed according to the post-test using the Continuous Performance Test, Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance, and Paired Sample t-test was used to test statistical hypotheses (p≤0.05).
Results: The results revealed that applying tDCS is effective in improving the visual sustained attention of ADHD student-athletes.
Conclusion: The findings of the study indicated that the protocol of applying 1 mA tDCS can improve the visual sustained attention of ADHD student-athletes.

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