A wealth of research from the past two decades shows that addictive behaviors are
characterized by attentional biases for substance-related stimuli. We review the relevant …

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in attentional bias in addiction, particularly
its clinical relevance. Specifically, numerous articles claimed to demonstrate either that (1) …

Background The phenotype of addiction includes prominent attentional biases for drug cues,
which play a role in motivating drug-seeking behavior and contribute to relapse. In a …

Individuals with substance use disorders typically show an “attentional bias” for substance-
related cues: Those cues are able to grab and hold the attention, in preference to other cues …

There has been much recent interest in the idea that drug users show biased attention
toward drug-related events. Because drug stimuli produce conditioned responses that may …

Rationale Attentional bias for alcohol-related cues is associated with the motivation to drink
alcohol, possibly because attentional bias increases craving. Objectives We examined …

Background Previous research has shown attentional bias toward alcohol-related stimuli in
non-dependent social drinkers. The aim of this study was to investigate whether attentional …

Theoretical models of addiction suggest that attentional bias for substance-related cues
should be associated with self-reported craving. The authors evaluated the strength of the …

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 …

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 …