Background The relationship between trait mindfulness and substance use behaviors has
been inconsistent across studies. The current meta-analysis aimed at quantifying the …

Objective: This paper reports two experiments designed to investigate and modify biased
attentional processing of food cues in obesity. Experiment 1: Experiment 1 used a dot probe …

There is emerging evidence that attentional biases are related to the consumption of
substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and that attentional bias modification can reduce …

Low sensitivity to the acute effects of alcohol is a risk factor for heavy drinking and related
problems. However, little research has tested process explanations for such effects. The …

Distinguishing dependent from recreational drug use can be a surprisingly difficult task, and
the current means for identifying substance abuse can be inadequate or even misleading. In …

Alcohol addictive behaviors are associated with a combination of deficits in executive
functions, such as a weak response inhibition, and potent automatic appetitive responses to …

Background Although cocaine is known to be a highly addictive drug, there appears to be a
select subset of individuals who are able to use the substance recreationally without …

Rationale Previous work has indicated that implicit attentional biases to alcohol-related cues
are indicative of susceptibility to alcohol dependence and escape drinking, or drinking to …

Cigarette‐dependent smokers automatically and involuntarily orient attention toward
smoking cues (SCs). This attentional bias is clinically significant, as it may contribute to …

Alcohol abuse is frequently characterised by cycles of heavy drinking, detoxification, and
relapse. We review evidence that multiple detoxifications are associated with impaired …