The human social brain is complex. Current knowledge fails to define the neurobiological
processes underlying social behaviour involving the (patho-) physiological mechanisms that …

Highlights•Few psychological or physiological processes are universally beneficial.•Most
positive phenomena reach inflection points where their effects turn negative.•Mindfulness is …

Prominent cognitive theories postulate that an attentional bias toward threatening
information contributes to the etiology, maintenance, or exacerbation of fear and anxiety. In …

A wealth of research demonstrates attentional biases toward threat in the anxiety disorders.
Several models have been advanced to explain these biases in anxiety, yet the mechanisms …

BACKGROUND:: Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) is a newly emerging,
promising treatment for anxiety disorders. Although recent randomized control trials (RCTs) …

Clinical anxiety disorders and elevated levels of anxiety vulnerability are characterized by
cognitive biases, and this processing selectivity has been implicated in theoretical accounts …

Anxiety vulnerability and dysfunction are characterized by an attentional bias to threat.
Cognitive training procedures designed to modify selective attentional responding to threat …

Attention bias modification (ABM) is a newly emerging therapy for anxiety disorders that is
rooted in current cognitive models of anxiety and in established experimental data on threat …

Adolescence is a period of major risk for depression, which is associated with negative
personal, social, and educational outcomes. Yet, in comparison to adult models of …

Attention bias modification (ABM) protocols aim to modify attentional biases underlying
many forms of pathology. Our objective was to conduct an effect size analysis of ABM across …