Effect of attention bias modification on depressive affect [PDF]
Scientific ReportsCognitive interventions targeting depressive mood and major depressive disorder have emerged as a critical focus in mental health research. While studies on anxiety disorders, social phobia, eating disorders, and addiction have consistent findings ...
Nazende Öksüz Özdemir, Serhat Yüksel
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Attention bias modification for depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 BackgroundDepression is a mental health disorder characterized by affective, somatic, and cognitive symptoms. Attention bias modification (ABM) has been widely used to treat depression. However, the results seem inconsistent.
Hai-sha Xia +12 more
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Learning to Look at the Bright Side of Life: Attention Bias Modification Training Enhances Optimism Bias [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019 Identifying neurocognitive mechanisms underlying optimism bias is essential to understand its benefits for well-being and mental health. The combined cognitive biases hypothesis suggests that biases (e.g., in expectancies and attention) interact and ...
Laura Kress, Tatjana Aue
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The role of the dorsal attention network in attention bias modification for social anxiety disorder [PDF]
Translational PsychiatryIdentifying reliable biomarkers of treatment response is central to advancing personalized psychiatry. While whole-brain functional connectivity models have shown promise in predicting clinical outcomes, especially for broad-spectrum interventions like ...
Yael Coldham +10 more
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Predictive Attentional Bias Modification Induces Stimulus-Evoked Attentional Bias for Threat [PDF]
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2019 Attentional Bias Modification (ABM) aims to modulate attentional biases, but questions remain about its efficacy and there may be new variants yet to explore.
Thomas E. Gladwin +2 more
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Efficacy of attention bias modification via smartphones in a large population sample [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Negative affective biases are a key feature of anxiety and depression that uphold and promote negative mood. Bias modification aims to reduce these biases using computerized training, but shows mixed success and has not been tested at scale.
Alysha Chelliah, Oliver Robinson
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The current study examined the effects of a reward associative learning procedure and the traditional threat-avoidance ABM paradigm on anxiety and attentional bias. In reward training, participants were given high rewards for correct responses to neutral
Wen Xiao +3 more
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Attentional Bias Modification Training for Itch: A Proof-of-Principle Study in Healthy Individuals [PDF]
Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Itch draws our attention to allow imposing action against bodily harm (e.g., remove insects). At the same time, itch is found to interfere with ongoing tasks and daily life goals.
Antoinette I. M. van Laarhoven +10 more
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Food related attention bias modification training for anorexia nervosa and its potential underpinning mechanisms [PDF]
Journal of Eating Disorders, 2020 Treatment outcomes in anorexia nervosa (AN) remain suboptimal, evidencing the need for better and more targeted treatments. Whilst the aetiology of AN is complex, cognitive processes such as attention bias (AB) have been proposed to contribute to ...
Daniela Mercado +4 more
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Codesigning a mobile gamified attention bias modification intervention: research protocol [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Introduction Advances in experimental psychology has highlighted the need to modify underlying automatic cognitive biases, such as attentional biases.
Helen Smith +4 more
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