Neural changes with attention bias modification for anxiety: a randomized trial

JC Britton, JG Suway, MA Clementi… - Social Cognitive and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Attention bias modification (ABM) procedures typically reduce anxiety symptoms, yet little is
known about the neural changes associated with this behavioral treatment. Healthy adults …

A pilot study of an adaptive, idiographic, and multi-component attention bias modification program for social anxiety disorder

N Amir, JM Kuckertz, MV Strege - Cognitive therapy and research, 2016 - Springer
An attentional bias toward threat may be one mechanism underlying clinical anxiety.
Attention bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce symptoms of anxiety disorders by directly …

Neuroplastic changes in anterior cingulate cortex gray matter volume and functional connectivity following attention bias modification in high trait anxious individuals

JM Carlson, L Fang, EHW Koster, JA Andrzejewski… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Attention bias modification (ABM) was developed to alleviate anxious symptoms by way of a
reduction in anxiety-linked attentional bias to threat. Central to the rational of ABM is a …

Learning and memory consolidation processes of attention-bias modification in anxious and nonanxious individuals

R Abend, DS Pine, NA Fox… - Clinical Psychological …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent evidence suggests that attention-bias-modification (ABM) procedures may reduce
anxiety via computerized attention-training tasks. However, the mechanisms underlying the …

Does attention bias modification improve attentional control? A double-blind randomized experiment with individuals with social anxiety disorder

A Heeren, C Mogoaşe, RJ McNally, A Schmitz… - Journal of anxiety …, 2015 - Elsevier
People with anxiety disorders often exhibit an attentional bias for threat. Attention bias
modification (ABM) procedure may reduce this bias, thereby diminishing anxiety symptoms …

Attention bias modification (ABM): Review of effects of multisession ABM training on anxiety and threat-related attention in high-anxious individuals

K Mogg, AM Waters, BP Bradley - Clinical Psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Attention bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce anxiety by reducing attention bias (AB) to
threat; however, effects on anxiety and AB are variable. This review examines 34 studies …

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 …

The attentional bias modification approach to anxiety intervention

C MacLeod, PJF Clarke - Clinical Psychological Science, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Anxiety vulnerability and dysfunction are characterized by an attentional bias to threat.
Cognitive training procedures designed to modify selective attentional responding to threat …

Brain structure changes induced by attention bias modification training

R Abend, A Rosenfelder, D Shamai, DS Pine… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Attention bias modification (ABM) therapy aims to reduce anxiety by changing threat-related
attention patterns using computerized training tasks. We examined changes in brain …

Attention bias modification for anxiety and phobias: current status and future directions

JM Kuckertz, N Amir - Current psychiatry reports, 2015 - Springer
Attention bias modification (ABM) was introduced over a decade ago as a computerized
method of manipulating attentional bias and has been followed by intense interest in …