A new training to decrease attentional bias (attentional bias modification training, ABM) was
tested in a randomized controlled experimental study with alcohol-dependent patients as an …

Objective: Alcohol-dependent patients show attentional and approach biases for alcohol-
related stimuli. Computerized cognitive bias modification (CBM) programs aim to retrain …

Background Attentional bias modification (ABM) interventions have been developed to
address addiction by reducing attentional bias for substance-related cues. This study …

Aims To examine whether alcohol‐related attentional bias (AB) can be reduced by training
heavy drinkers to attend to soft drinks as an alternative to alcohol. Diminishing AB is …

Context Attentional bias modification (ABM) treatment is a promising intervention tool for a
variety of clinical conditions. Objectives This study provides an updated review of the clinical …

When a person has a goal of drinking alcohol or using another addictive substance, the
person appears to be automatically distracted by stimuli related to the goal. Because the …

Background Modifying attentional processes with attentional bias modification (ABM) might
be a relevant add‐on to treatment in addiction. This study investigated whether influencing …

This article summarizes a symposium on new ways to change implicit alcohol‐related
cognitions, presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism in …

Rationale In heavy drinkers, training attention towards alcohol cues increases alcohol
craving, but it is not clear if effects of 'attentional training'generalise to novel stimuli and …

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 …