BRAIN MODULATION IN ADDICTION: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE AND POSSIBLE PERSPECTIVES
Addiction formed in the regions with difficult socio-economic, political and humanitarian conditions is the most urgent issue of world health care, since a significant increase in addictive behavior has been observed over the past decade. The medical science faces the primary task caused by high relapse rate - search of new methods of addiction treatment that would allow to personalize the approaches to therapy of this category of patients, make them available practically for all parts of population, introduce non-invasive methods, etc. Brain modulation (neuromodulation) can act as a new full-fledged method of addiction treatment, since it can directly affect abnormalities in neural networks. The article is devoted to a review of both domestic and foreign literature on neuromodulation, searching for strengths and weaknesses of brain modulation in different types of addictions.