Attentional bias in depression: understanding mechanisms to improve training and treatment

AC Mennen, KA Norman, NB Turk-Browne - Current opinion in psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the most common symptoms of depression is the tendency to attend to negative
stimuli in the world and negative thoughts in mind. This symptom is especially nefarious …

Functional MRI in major depressive disorder: A review of findings, limitations, and future prospects

J Pilmeyer, W Huijbers, R Lamerichs… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective diagnosis and prognosis in major depressive disorder (MDD) remains a challenge
due to the absence of biomarkers based on physiological parameters or medical tests …

Health anxiety and attentional bias toward virus-related stimuli during the COVID-19 pandemic

L Cannito, A Di Crosta, R Palumbo, I Ceccato… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
After the COVID-19 worldwide spread, evidence suggested a vast diffusion of negative
consequences on people's mental health. Together with depression and sleep difficulties …

[HTML][HTML] Sex and age differences in cognitive bias and neural activation in response to cognitive bias testing

TE Hodges, GY Lee, SH Noh, LAM Galea - Neurobiology of Stress, 2022 - Elsevier
Cognitive symptoms of depression, including negative cognitive bias, are more severe in
women than in men. Current treatments to reduce negative cognitive bias are not effective …

[HTML][HTML] Attention bias modification for depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis

H Xia, Y Li, Q Zhang, D Zhong, X Liu, X Gou… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Depression is a mental health disorder characterized by affective, somatic, and
cognitive symptoms. Attention bias modification (ABM) has been widely used to treat …

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 …

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 …

Attention biases in previously depressed individuals: A meta-analysis and implications for depression recurrence

D Shamai-Leshem, M Linetzky, Y Bar-Haim - Cognitive Therapy and …, 2022 - Springer
Background Depression is a severely disabling disorder, with high recurrence rates
suggesting that depression-prone individuals may be characterized by stable vulnerability …

Efficacy of attention bias modification training for depressed adults: A randomized clinical trial

KJ Hsu, J Shumake, K Caffey, S Risom… - Psychological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Background This study examined the efficacy of attention bias modification training (ABMT)
for the treatment of depression. Methods In this randomized clinical trial, 145 adults (77 …

[HTML][HTML] Within-network connectivity in the salience network after attention bias modification training in residual depression: report from a preregistered clinical trial

E Hilland, NI Landrø, CJ Harmer… - Frontiers in Human …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Alterations in resting state networks (RSNs) are associated with emotional-and attentional
control difficulties in depressed individuals. Attentional bias modification (ABM) training may …