ABC training: A new theory-based form of cognitive-bias modification to foster automatization of alternative choices in the treatment of addiction and related disorders

RW Wiers, P Van Dessel… - Current Directions in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Approach-bias retraining and other training interventions as add-on in the treatment of AUD patients

RW Wiers, T Pan, P Van Dessel, M Rinck… - 2023 - Springer
In the past two decades, a variety of cognitive training interventions have been developed to
help people overcome their addictive behaviors. Conceptually, it is important to distinguish …

The effectiveness of cognitive bias modification interventions for substance addictions: a meta-analysis

IA Cristea, RN Kok, P Cuijpers - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background and Aims Cognitive bias modification (CBM) interventions, presumably
targeting automatic processes, are considered particularly promising for addictions. We …

Cognitive bias modification for behavior change in alcohol and smoking addiction: Bayesian meta-analysis of individual participant data

M Boffo, O Zerhouni, QF Gronau, RJJ van Beek… - Neuropsychology …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) refers to a family of interventions targeting
substance-related cognitive biases, which have been found to play a role in the …

[HTML][HTML] Approach bias modification in alcohol dependence: do clinical effects replicate and for whom does it work best?

C Eberl, RW Wiers, S Pawelczack, M Rinck… - Developmental cognitive …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Alcoholism is a progressive neurocognitive developmental disorder.
Recent evidence shows that computerized training interventions (Cognitive Bias …

Mediation of cognitive bias modification for alcohol addiction via stimulus‐specific alcohol avoidance association

TE Gladwin, M Rinck, C Eberl… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cognitive bias modification (CBM) studies have provided evidence that
cognitive biases play a causal role in alcohol use disorders. In this study, data from a CBM …

Cognitive neuroscience of cognitive retraining for addiction medicine: From mediating mechanisms to questions of efficacy

TE Gladwin, CE Wiers, RW Wiers - Progress in brain research, 2016 - Elsevier
Cognitive retraining or cognitive bias modification (CBM) involves having subjects
repeatedly perform a computerized task designed to reduce the impact of automatic …

Alcohol-specific computerized interventions to alter cognitive biases: a systematic review of effects on experimental tasks, drinking behavior, and neuronal activation

HM Batschelet, M Stein, RM Tschuemperlin… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: In patients with alcohol use disorder, novel interventions to increase
abstinence have attracted growing attention. Interventions aimed at modifying cognitive …

Retraining automatic action tendencies changes alcoholic patients' approach bias for alcohol and improves treatment outcome

RW Wiers, C Eberl, M Rinck, ES Becker… - Psychological …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This study tested the effects of a new cognitive-bias modification (CBM) intervention that
targeted an approach bias for alcohol in 214 alcoholic inpatients. Patients were assigned to …

Imaging the neural effects of cognitive bias modification training

CE Wiers, RW Wiers - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
Cognitive bias modification (CBM) was first developed as an experimental tool to examine
the causal role of cognitive biases, and later developed into complementary interventions in …