Trial reportJournal of abnormal psychology2015
Attention bias modification for major depressive disorder: Effects on attention bias, resting state connectivity, and symptom change.
Trial report in Journal of abnormal psychology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 4 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 77 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Development of Attention Bias Modification for Depression
Affective Attentional Bias Training In Depression: An Eye-Tracking Study
An Emoji-based Attention Bias Modification Intervention for Depressive Symptom Severity in Young Adults
Optimizing Attentional Bias Modification for Depression: Does Mindfulness Help?
Who cites it
77 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 196 citations in OpenAlex.
- Resting State Functional Connectivity of Brain With Electroconvulsive Therapy in Depression: Meta-Analysis to Understand Its Mechanisms.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
- The effect of attentional bias modification on positive affect dynamics.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Training reduces error in rating the intensity of emotions.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of gaze-contingent music reward therapy for major depressive disorder.Depression and anxiety · 2021Trial
- Time course of pupillary response to threat words before and after attention bias modification for transdiagnostic anxiety disorders: A randomized controlled trial.Brain and behavior · 2020Trial
- Attentional bias modification is associated with fMRI response toward negative stimuli in individuals with residual depression: a randomized controlled trialJournal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2020Trial
- Effects of Attentional Bias Modification on residual symptoms in depression: a randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Investigating the (cost-) effectiveness of attention bias modification (ABM) for outpatients with major depressive disorder (MDD): a randomized controlled trial protocol.BMC psychiatry · 2016Trial
- Acute effects of ATNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Examining clinical relevance of interpretation inflexibility in social contexts.Annals of general psychiatry · 2026Article
- Transdiagnostic associations between subjective gesture behaviour and objective performance in schizophrenia and depression.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Virtual reality based attentional bias modification training for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a feasibility study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Aberrant functional connectivity patterns in the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex and anterior midcingulate cortex of patients with irritable bowel syndrome accompanied by depressive symptoms.Brain imaging and behavior · 2025Article
- Over-integration of visual network in major depressive disorder and its association with gene expression profiles.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Efficacy of traditional and gamified attention bias modification for depression: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Machine learning meta-analysis identifies individual characteristics moderating cognitive intervention efficacy for anxiety and depression symptoms.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Effects of childhood trauma on sustained attention in major depressive disorder: the mediating role of brain activity and functional connectivity.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Evaluating the Link between Visual Attention Bias and Emotion Dysregulation of Young Children.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2024Article
- FNIRS-Based Energy Landscape Analysis to Signify Brain Activity Dynamics of Individuals With Depression.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Article
- Brain structural and functional abnormalities in affective network are associated with anxious depression.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
17 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Cognitive theories of depression posit that selective attention for negative information contributes to the maintenance of depression. The current study experimentally tested this idea by randomly assigning adults with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) to 4 weeks of computer-based attention bias modification designed to reduce negative attention bias or 4 weeks of placebo attention training. Findings indicate that compared to placebo training, attention bias modification reduced negative attention bias and increased resting-state connectivity within a neural circuit (i.e., middle frontal gyrus and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex) that supports control over emotional information. Further, pre- to post-training change in negative attention bias was significantly correlated with depression symptom change only in the active training condition. Exploratory analyses indicated that pre- to post-training changes in resting state connectivity within a circuit associated with sustained attention to visual information (i.e., precuenus and middle frontal gyrus) contributed to symptom improvement in the placebo condition. Importantly, depression symptoms did not change differentially between the training groups-overall, a 40% decrease in symptoms was observed across attention training conditions. Findings suggest that negative attention bias is associated with the maintenance of depression; however, deficits in general attentional control may also maintain depression symptoms, as evidenced by resting state connectivity and depression symptom improvement in the placebo training condition.
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