In patients with addiction to a substance, an increase in activity in the prefrontal cortex induced by transcranial Direct Current Stimulation -tDCS (non-invasive technique, modulating cortical activity by applying low-intensity electrical currents between two electrodes),may help reduce craving in people addicted to alcohol and tobacco. By analogy with addictive behavior with a substance, the craving observed in certain behavioral addictions would involve the same neural circuits. The main hypothesis is to reduce the sexual craving associated with the viewing of erotic images during active brain stimulation compared to placebo stimulation. Functional MRI will allow to better understand the neural circuits involved in sexual addiction and in the expected inhibition of sexual arousal by tDCS in sexual addictions during visualization erotic images.
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