ArticleJournal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry2016
An open trial evaluating an attention bias modification program for overweight adults who binge eat.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Implicit bias to food and body cues in eating disorders: a systematic review.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic and methodological review of attentional biases in eating disorders: Food, body, and perfectionism.Brain and behavior · 2019Pooled it
- A systematic review of reviews of neurocognitive functioning in eating disorders: The state-of-the-literature and future directions.The International journal of eating disorders · 2018Pooled it
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- Adding executive function training to cognitive behavioral therapy for binge eating disorder: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Eating behaviors · 2023Trial
- Distractor effect of food stimuli among patients with binge eating behaviour - a narrative review and pilot data.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Attentional bias toward food in binge eating disorder: baseline differences and the limits of attention modification training.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
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- Guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Women With Bulimia Nervosa: Protocol for a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Modification of Body-Related Attentional Bias through Virtual Reality and Eye-Tracking in Healthy Participants: Implications for Anorexia Nervosa Treatments.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- A randomised controlled feasibility study of food-related computerised attention training versus mindfulness training and waiting-list control for adults with overweight or obesity: the FOCUS study.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Mindful acceptance, not awareness, associated with lower food susceptibility.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Observational
- Development of a culturally adaptable internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for Japanese women with bulimia nervosa.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Does concurrent self-administered transcranial direct current stimulation and attention bias modification training improve symptoms of binge eating disorder? Protocol for the TANDEM feasibility randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Targeting executive function for weight loss in adults with overweight or obesity.Physiology & behavior · 2021Article
- Effectiveness of mindfulness based cognitive therapy on weight loss, improvement of hypertension and attentional bias to eating cues in overweight people.International journal of nursing sciences · 2020Article
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- Psychometric properties of the eating loss of control scale among postbariatric patients.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2019Article
- Disordered Eating Among Individuals with Excess Weight: a Review of Recent Research.Current obesity reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesBinge eating is prevalent and is associated with significant psychiatric and medical comorbidities. To date, the most effective psychological treatments for individuals who binge eat are not effective for all patients and they do not result in significant weight loss. Dual process theories suggest that implicit factors, such as attention bias, may influence behavior, even when the behavior is in opposition to long-term goals. Attention bias modification programs have been tested in other areas of psychopathology, and could be utilized to improve outcomes for people who binge eat. Thus, the aim of this open trial was to conduct a preliminary evaluation of an attention bias modification program (ABM-Food) designed to train attention away from food cues.
methodsAdults who binge eat and were overweight or obese enrolled in an 8-week ABM-Food program, which consisted of one session in the lab each week and two training sessions at home. Nine participants completed the ABM-Food training program and the post-treatment assessment, and 8 completed the 3-month post-treatment assessment.
resultsResults showed that the ABM-Food program is a feasible and acceptable treatment for adults who binge eat. Initial effectiveness data showed decreases in weight, eating disorder symptoms, binge eating, loss of control and responsivity to food in the environment, as well as changes in attention bias. The majority of these effects remained at the 3-month follow-up time point. LIMITATIONS: This study is limited by the single-group open label trial, and the small sample size.
conclusionsThis open trial provides initial evidence for the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of ABM-Food for individuals who binge eat and are overweight or obese.
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