Seeking neutral: A VR-based person-identity-matching task for attentional bias modification – A randomised controlled experiment [PDF]
Internet Interventions, 2020 Background: Attentional bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce anxiety by attenuating bias towards threatening information. The current study incorporated virtual reality (VR) technology and 3-dimensional stimuli with a person-identity-matching (PIM ...
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The therapeutic potential of attentional bias modification training for insomnia: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial [PDF]
Trials, 2018 Background The efficacy of attentional bias modification (ABM) as a treatment for anxiety and depression has been extensively studied with promising results.
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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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Attentional bias modification training for insomnia: A double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Attentional bias toward sleep-related information is believed to play a key role in insomnia. If attentional bias is indeed of importance, changing this bias should then in turn have effects on insomnia complaints. In this double-blind placebo controlled
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Effect of attentional bias modification on pre-competition anxiety in athletes [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBackgroundUnder high-pressure situations, such as crucial games, some athletes often underperform. This is the case even for exceptional athletes in critical moments of competition. Athletes often experience performance anxiety, which creates attentional
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Attentional bias modification in reducing test anxiety vulnerability: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2018 Background A tendency to selectively process a threat to positive information may be involved in the etiology of anxiety disorders. The aim of this study is to examine whether attentional bias modification (ABM) can be used to modify high test-anxiety ...
Wenpeng Cai +6 more
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The effect of attentional bias modification on positive affect dynamics [PDF]
Scientific ReportsNegative attentional bias and alterations in positive affect dynamics constitute emotional vulnerability to depression. Attentional bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce emotional vulnerability to depression by fostering attentional deployment towards ...
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Effects of Attentional Bias Modification on residual symptoms in depression: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2019 Background Following treatment, many depressed patients have significant residual symptoms. However, large randomised controlled trials (RCT) in this population are lacking. When Attention bias modification training (ABM) leads to more positive emotional
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Internet-based attentional bias modification training as add-on to regular treatment in alcohol and cannabis dependent outpatients: a study protocol of a randomized control trial [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2017 Background The automatic tendency to attend to and focus on substance-related cues in the environment (attentional bias), has been found to contribute to the persistence of addiction.
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Is It Possible to Train the Focus on Positive and Negative Parts of One’s Own Body? A Pilot Randomized Controlled Study on Attentional Bias Modification Training [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Dysfunctional body- and shape-related attentional biases are involved in the etiology and maintenance of eating disorders (ED). Various studies suggest that women, particularly those with ED diagnoses, focus on negatively evaluated parts of their own ...
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