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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Smartphone-Delivered Attentional Bias Modification Training for Mental Health: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]
JMIR Mental HealthBackgroundSmartphone-delivered attentional bias modification training (ABMT) intervention has gained popularity as a remote solution for alleviating symptoms of mental health problems.
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Combining Web-Based Attentional Bias Modification and Approach Bias Modification as a Self-Help Smoking Intervention for Adult Smokers Seeking Online Help: Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
JMIR Mental Health, 2020 BackgroundAutomatically activated cognitive motivational processes such as the tendency to attend to or approach smoking-related stimuli (ie, attentional and approach bias) have been related to smoking behaviors.
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Attentional Bias Modification With Serious Game Elements: Evaluating the Shots Game. [PDF]
JMIR Serious Games, 2016 Young adults often experiment with heavy use of alcohol, which poses severe health risks and increases the chance of developing addiction problems. In clinical patients, cognitive retraining of automatic appetitive processes, such as selective attention toward alcohol (known as "cognitive bias modification of attention," or CBM-A), has been shown to be
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The (neuro)cognitive mechanisms behind attention bias modification in anxiety: Proposals based on theoretical accounts of attentional bias [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 Recently, researchers have investigated the causal nature of attentional bias for threat (AB) in the maintenance of anxiety disorders by experimentally manipulating it.
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Attentional control predicts change in bias in response to attentional bias modification [PDF]
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2017 Procedures that effectively modify attentional bias to negative information have been examined for their potential to be a source of therapeutic change in emotional vulnerability. However, the degree to which these procedures modify attentional bias is subject to individual differences.
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Attentional bias modification encourages healthy eating [PDF]
Eating Behaviors, 2014 The continual exposure to unhealthy food cues in the environment encourages poor dietary habits, in particular consuming too much fat and sugar, and not enough fruit and vegetables. According to Berridge's (2009) model of food reward, unhealthy eating is a behavioural response to biased attentional processing.
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Recent Advances in Attention Bias Modification for Substance Addictions [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018 Research on attentional bias modification has increased since 2014. A recent meta-analysis demonstrates evidence for bias modification for substance disorders, including alcohol and tobacco use disorders. Several pharmacological trials have shown that pharmacological agents can attenuate and modify such attentional bias. The pharmacological trials that
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