ReviewCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2010
The modification of attentional bias to emotional information: A review of the techniques, mechanisms, and relevance to emotional disorders.
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- Efficacy of attention bias modification using threat and appetitive stimuli: a meta-analytic review.Behavior therapy · 2012Pooled it
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- Brain structure changes induced by attention bias modification training.Biological psychology · 2019Trial
- Attention bias modification augments cognitive-behavioral group therapy for social anxiety disorder: a randomized controlled trial.Psychological medicine · 2018Trial
- Amygdala Reactivity to Emotional Faces in the Prediction of General and Medication-Specific Responses to Antidepressant Treatment in the Randomized iSPOT-D Trial.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2015Trial
- 'Can you look me in the face?' Short-term SSRI administration reverts avoidant ocular face exploration in subjects at risk for psychopathology.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2014Trial
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- Using attentional bias modification as a cognitive vaccine against depression.Biological psychiatry · 2012Trial
- The serotonin transporter gene alters sensitivity to attention bias modification: evidence for a plasticity gene.Biological psychiatry · 2011Trial
- Using an experimental medicine model to explore combination effects of pharmacological and cognitive interventions for depression and anxiety.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2011Trial
- The impact of coping style on gaze duration.PloS one · 2010Trial
- Negative affect interacts with perceptual affective biases.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Multimodal correlates of socioemotional movie-watching and their associations with internalizing symptoms in childhood and adulthood.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- What the Eye Sees, the Mind Rejects: Implicit Visual Processing of Food Images in Anorexia Nervosa.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
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- The Impact of Intravenous Ketamine on Attentional Bias: Probing Mechanisms of Rapid-Acting Antidepressant Effects in Two Clinical Studies.Biological psychiatry · 2025Article
- Disgust-induced attentional blink at Lag3: a diagnostic and therapeutic approach to depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Multiple Adaptive Attention-Bias-Modification Programs to Alter Normative Increase in the Error-Related Negativity in Adolescents.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- AttentionCARE: replicability of a BCI for the clinical application of augmented reality-guided EEG-based attention modification for adolescents at high risk for depression.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
A negative bias in the deployment of attention to emotional stimuli is commonly found in both anxiety and depression. Recent work has highlighted that such biases are causally related to emotional vulnerability, suggesting that interventions that ameliorate them may be therapeutic. Here, we review the evidence that attentional bias can be modified using both pharmacological and psychological interventions. We highlight the behavioral and neuroimaging studies that suggest that these interventions impact upon attention via alteration of distinct neural mechanisms. Specifically, pharmacological interventions appear to influence the initial deployment of attention via an effect on the amygdala-based stimulus appraisal system, whereas psychological interventions influence attention at later time points and may alter activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex. Finally, we suggest a conceptual framework that embraces both pharmacological and psychological approaches and consider the possible implications of this work for future research and treatment development.
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