A review of attentional bias modification trainings for depression

G Li, X Cai, Q Yang, Q Cui, L Huang… - CNS Neuroscience …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Negative attentional bias is a basic character of depression. The attentional bias
modification training (ABMT), being a highly promising and easy‐to‐use depression …

Validation of a novel attentional bias modification task: The future may be in the cards

L Notebaert, PJF Clarke, B Grafton… - Behaviour Research and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Attentional bias modification (ABM) is a promising therapeutic tool aimed at changing
patterns of attentional selectivity associated with heightened anxiety. A number of studies …

Efficacy and mechanisms underlying a gamified attention bias modification training in anxious youth: protocol for a randomized controlled trial

JO Linke, E Jones, D Pagliaccio, C Swetlitz, KM Lewis… - BMC psychiatry, 2019 - Springer
Background Attention bias modification training (ABMT) and cognitive behavioral therapy
(CBT) likely target different aspects of aberrant threat responses in anxiety disorders and …

Money talks in attention bias modification: Reward in a dot-probe task affects attentional biases

Ó Sigurjónsdóttir, AS Björnsson, SJ Ludvigsdóttir… - Visual …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Attention bias modification (ABM) aimed at correcting dysfunctional biases in anxiety
patients has met with only mild success. Inspired by recent studies showing large effects of …

Attention bias modification for social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis

A Heeren, C Mogoașe, P Philippot… - Clinical psychology review, 2015 - Elsevier
Research on attention bias modification (ABM) for social anxiety disorder (SAD) is
inconclusive, with some studies finding clear positive effects and other studies finding no …

Attentional bias modification in reducing test anxiety vulnerability: a randomized controlled trial

W Cai, Y Pan, H Chai, Y Cui, J Yan, W Dong, G Deng - Bmc Psychiatry, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Visual search attentional bias modification reduced social phobia in adolescents

EL De Voogd, RW Wiers, PJM Prins… - Journal of Behavior …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background and objectives An attentional bias for negative information plays an important
role in the development and maintenance of (social) anxiety and depression, which are …

[HTML][HTML] Attentional bias modification based on visual probe task: methodological issues, results and clinical relevance

FM Lopes, KR Viacava, L Bizarro - Trends in psychiatry and …, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
Introduction: Attentional bias, the tendency that a person has to drive or maintain attention to
a specific class of stimuli, may play an important role in the etiology and persistence of …

Structural MRI-based measures of neuroplasticity in an extended amygdala network as a target for attention bias modification treatment outcome

J Aday, JM Carlson - Medical hypotheses, 2017 - Elsevier
Increased attentional bias to threat has been identified as a causal mechanism in the
development of anxiety. As such, attention bias modification (ABM) was conceived as a …

Training anxious children to disengage attention from threat: a randomized controlled trial

Y Bar‐Haim, I Morag, S Glickman - Journal of Child Psychology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Threat‐related attention biases have been implicated in the etiology and
maintenance of anxiety disorders. As a result, attention bias modification (ABM) protocols …