Cognitive retraining or cognitive bias modification (CBM) involves having subjects
repeatedly perform a computerized task designed to reduce the impact of automatic …

Highlights•Cognitive-motivational processes in addictions can be directly targeted with
cognitive training.•Cognitive training has yielded promising findings when combined with …

This article reviews the emerging research on cognitive training for substance use disorders,
and discusses the neuroscientific mechanisms that underlie cognitive training effects in …

The past decade has witnessed a surge in research on training paradigms aimed at directly
influencing cognitive processes in addiction and other psychopathology. Broadly, two …

Recent years have seen a surge in the popularity of interventions that target common
distortions in thinking (cognitive-bias modification, or CBM). Although there is evidence of …

Highlights•Cognitive mechanisms of addiction include automatic and controlled processes.•
Strengthening of automatic and weakening of controlled processes are …

Two studies showed an improvement in clinical outcomes after alcohol approach bias
retraining, a form of Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM). We investigated whether …

Two broad classes of cognitive training can be distinguished that have been tested as
(additional) interventions in addiction and other psychopathology (1): training of general …

Cognitive training results in significant, albeit modest, improvements in specific cognitive
functions across a range of mental illnesses. Inhibitory control, defined as the ability to stop …

Delay Discounting Among Stimulant Addicts,” provides a compelling example of the
potential value of identifying neurocognitive aspects of psychiatric disorders and then …