Trial reportCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2017
Neuromodulation can reduce aggressive behavior elicited by violent video games.
Trial report in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Anger and Aggression.Aggressive behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Targeting aggression with prefrontal high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Neuroscience informed risk assessment and management in forensic mental healthcare: a qualitative analysis of ethical and legal challenges and practice-oriented recommendations.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Modulating interhemispheric prefrontal dynamics of aggressive behavior: Sex differences and the association with personal disposition.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- "Rationality" enhancement through anodal tDCS over the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Daily Rejection-Related Emotions in Borderline Personality Disorder: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study Protocol.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- The Effect of Multi-Session Prefrontal Cortical Stimulation on Aggression: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Parallel-Group Trial.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation for the Modulation of Aggressive Behavior-A Systematic Review of Randomized Sham-Controlled Studies.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Can we rewire criminal mind via non-invasive brain stimulation of prefrontal cortex? Insights from clinical, forensic and social cognition studies.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Modulating Behavioural and Self-Reported Aggression with Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation: A Literature Review.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- The effect of three violent videogame engagement states on aggressive behavior: A partial least squares structural equation modeling approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Techniques to Reduce Violence Proneness by Interfering in Anger and Irritability.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
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- Selective changes in moral judgment by noninvasive brain stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Inverse effects of tDCS over the left versus right DLPC on emotional processing: A pupillometry study.PloS one · 2019Article
- Stimulating Self-Regulation: A Review of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Studies of Goal-Directed Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Review
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Abstract
Research has shown that exposure to violent media increases aggression. However, the neural underpinnings of violent-media-related aggression are poorly understood. Additionally, few experiments have tested hypotheses concerning how to reduce violent-media-related aggression. In this experiment, we focused on a brain area involved in the regulation of aggressive impulses-the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (rVLPFC). We tested the hypothesis that brain polarization through anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over rVLPFC reduces aggression related to violent video games. Participants (N = 79) were randomly assigned to play a violent or a nonviolent video game while receiving anodal or sham stimulation. Afterward, participants aggressed against an ostensible partner using the Taylor aggression paradigm (Taylor Journal of Personality, 35, 297-310, 1967), which measures both unprovoked and provoked aggression. Among those who received sham stimulation, unprovoked aggression was significantly higher for violent-game players than for nonviolent-game players. Among those who received anodal stimulation, unprovoked aggression did not differ for violent- and nonviolent-game players. Thus, anodal stimulation reduced unprovoked aggression in violent-game players. No significant effects were found for provoked aggression, suggesting tit-for-tat responding. This experiment sheds light on one possible neural underpinning of violent-media-related aggression-the rVLPFC, a brain area involved in regulating negative feelings and aggressive impulses.
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