Approach bias modification for cannabis use disorder: A proof-of-principle study. [PDF]
J Subst Abuse Treat, 2018 More effective treatments for cannabis use disorder (CUD) are needed. Evidence suggests that biases in cognitive processing of drug-related stimuli are central to the development and maintenance of addiction. The current study examined the feasibility and effect of a novel intervention - approach bias modification (ApBM) - on cannabis approach bias and
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Gamified Adaptive Approach Bias Modification in Individuals With Methamphetamine Use History From Communities in Sichuan: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
JMIR Serious GamesBackgroundCognitive bias modification (CBM) programs have shown promise in treating psychiatric conditions, but they can be perceived as boring and repetitive.
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Effectiveness of two web-based cognitive bias modification interventions targeting approach and attentional bias in gambling problems: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial [PDF]
Trials, 2017 Background Disordered gamblers have phenotypical and pathological similarities to those with substance use disorders (SUD), including exaggerated automatic cognitive processing of motivationally salient gambling cues in the environment (i.e., attentional
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Can Cognitive Bias Modification Simultaneously Target Two Behaviors? Approach Bias Retraining for Alcohol and Condom Use [PDF]
Clinical Psychological Science, 2019 This study tested the effectiveness of a cognitive bias modification (CBM) intervention to simultaneously reduce approach biases toward alcohol and increase approach biases toward condoms among high-risk young adults. Participants ( N = 102) were randomly assigned to either a training condition or a sham-training condition. Participants in the training
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Combining approach bias modification with working memory training during inpatient alcohol withdrawal: an open-label pilot trial of feasibility and acceptability [PDF]
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2019 Background According to contemporary neurocognitive models, addiction is maintained by the biasing of information-processing and decision-making systems towards relatively automatic, impulsive, reward-seeking responses to drug-related stimuli, and away ...
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Approach Bias Modification for reducing Co-Occurring Alcohol and cannabis use among treatment-seeking Adolescents: Protocol of a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Contemporary Clinical Trials CommunicationsAlcohol and cannabis are the first and second most used substances among adolescents. Adolescence is a period of considerable development, making the adolescent brain particularly vulnerable to negative effects of alcohol and cannabis use. Developing and
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Approach bias modification in alcohol dependence: do clinical effects replicate and for whom does it work best? [PDF]
Dev Cogn Neurosci, 2013 Alcoholism is a progressive neurocognitive developmental disorder. Recent evidence shows that computerized training interventions (Cognitive Bias Modification, CBM) can reverse some of these maladaptively changed neurocognitive processes. A first clinical study of a CBM, called alcohol-avoidance training, found that trained alcoholic patients showed ...
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Relapse prevention in abstinent alcoholics by cognitive bias modification: Clinical effects of combining approach bias modification and attention bias modification. [PDF]
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2018 Alcohol-dependent patients show attentional and approach biases for alcohol-related stimuli. Computerized cognitive bias modification (CBM) programs aim to retrain these biases and reduce relapse rates as add-ons to treatment. Retraining of alcohol-approach tendencies has already yielded significant reductions of relapse rates in previous studies, and ...
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Introduction: Alcohol approach bias, the tendency to automatically move toward alcohol cues, has been observed in people who drink heavily. However, surprisingly, some alcohol-dependent patients demonstrate an alcohol avoidance bias.
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An experimental test of integrating imagery with approach bias modification for alcohol: A cautionary tale [PDF]
British Journal of Health Psychology, 2022 Abstract Objectives In terms of dual process models, behaviour can be conceived of as the outcome of an interplay between reflective, top‐down and impulsive, bottom‐up processes. Behaviour change interventions may benefit from targeting both types of processes in a coherent way. One approach to
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