ReviewFrontiers in psychology2015
An integrative review of attention biases and their contribution to treatment for anxiety disorders.
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- Eye-tracking analysis of attentional disengagement in phobic and non-phobic individuals.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
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- Instructional learning of threat-related attentional capture is modulated by state anxiety.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Attentional heterogeneity in social anxiety disorder: Evidence from Hidden Markov Models.Behaviour research and therapy · 2024Article
- Analysis of attentional biases in anxiety using 24 facial priming sequences.Cognitive processing · 2023Article
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- An Attentional Bias Modification Task, through Virtual Reality and Eye-Tracking Technologies, to Enhance the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Fear inoculation among snake experts.BMC psychiatry · 2021Article
- Depression and executive functioning bidirectionally impair one another across 9 years: Evidence from within-person latent change and cross-lagged models.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2021Article
- Culture and mood disorders: the effect of abstraction in image, narrative and film on depression and anxiety.Medical humanities · 2020Article
- Neural mechanisms underlying heterogeneous expression of threat-related attention in social anxiety.Behaviour research and therapy · 2020Article
- Mediators of youth anxiety outcomes 3 to 12 years after treatment.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2020Article
- Losing Ourselves: Active Inference, Depersonalization, and Meditation.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Extinction-resistant attention to long-term conditioned threat is indexed by selective visuocortical alpha suppression in humans.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Associations Between Attentional Bias and Interpretation Bias and Change in School Concerns and Anxiety Symptoms During the Transition from Primary to Secondary School.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- Can mindfulness be too much of a good thing? The value of a middle way.Current opinion in psychology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Models of exposure therapy, one of the key components of cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders, suggest that attention may play an important role in the extinction of fear and anxiety. Evidence from cognitive research suggests that individual differences may play a causal role in the onset and maintenance of anxiety disorders and so it is also likely to influence treatment. We review the evidence concerning attention and treatment outcomes in anxiety disorders. The evidence reviewed here suggests that that attention biases assessed at pre-treatment might actually predict improved response to treatment, and in particular that prolonged engagement with threat as measured in tasks such as the dot probe is associated with greater reductions in anxious symptoms following treatment. We examine this research within a fear learning framework, considering the possible role of individual differences in attention in the extinction of fear during exposure. Theoretical, experimental and clinical implications are discussed, particularly with reference to the potential for attention bias modification programs in augmenting treatment, and also with reference to how existing research in this area might inform best practice for clinicians.
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