Combining cognitive bias modification training with motivational support in alcohol dependent outpatients: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

M Boffo, T Pronk, RW Wiers, S Mannarini - Trials, 2015 - Springer
Background Addiction research has hypothesised that automatic and reflective cognitive
processes play an important role in the onset and maintenance of alcohol (ab) use, wherein …

Cognitive bias modification training during inpatient alcohol detoxification reduces early relapse: a randomized controlled trial

V Manning, PK Staiger, K Hall… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Relapse is common in alcohol‐dependent individuals and can be triggered by
alcohol‐related cues in the environment. It has been suggested that these individuals …

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 …

Relapse prevention in abstinent alcoholics by cognitive bias modification: Clinical effects of combining approach bias modification and attention bias modification.

M Rinck, RW Wiers, ES Becker… - Journal of consulting …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Alcohol-dependent patients show attentional and approach biases for alcohol-
related stimuli. Computerized cognitive bias modification (CBM) programs aim to retrain …

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 …

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 …

Implementation of approach bias re‐training in alcoholism—how many sessions are needed?

C Eberl, RW Wiers, S Pawelczack… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Computerized cognitive bias modification (CBM) programs have generated
promising results regarding the treatment of alcohol dependence and anxiety disorders …

Web-based cognitive bias modification for problem drinkers: protocol of a randomised controlled trial with a 2x2x2 factorial design

DS van Deursen, E Salemink, F Smit, J Kramer… - BMC Public Health, 2013 - Springer
Background The automatic tendency to attend to, positively evaluate and approach alcohol
related stimuli has been found to play a causal role in problematic alcohol use and can be …

A single session of attentional bias modification reduces alcohol craving and implicit measures of alcohol bias in young adult drinkers

P Luehring‐Jones, C Louis… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background Attentional bias modification (ABM) techniques for reducing problematic alcohol
consumption hold promise as highly accessible and cost‐effective treatment approaches. A …

Combining approach bias modification with working memory training during inpatient alcohol withdrawal: an open-label pilot trial of feasibility and acceptability

V Manning, K Mroz, JBB Garfield, PK Staiger… - … , prevention, and policy, 2019 - Springer
Background According to contemporary neurocognitive models, addiction is maintained by
the biasing of information-processing and decision-making systems towards relatively …