Trial reportJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2016
Attentional bias training in girls at risk for depression.
Trial report in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Investigating interpretation bias and stress responses as risk factors in children of parents with depression.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Theta Rhythm-Based Attention Switch Training Effectively Modified Negative Attentional Bias.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 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
- A review of attentional bias modification trainings for depression.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2023Review
- Cognitive manipulation of emotional and non-emotional information in working memory of patients with depression: a rigid processing style.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- An Eye-Tracking Study of Attention Biases in Children at High Familial Risk for Depression and Their Parents with Depression.Child psychiatry and human development · 2022Article
- Cognitive bias modification for adult's depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- From Stress to Depression: Bringing Together Cognitive and Biological Science.Current directions in psychological science · 2020Article
- Air pollution is associated with elevated HPA-Axis response to stress in anxious adolescent girls.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2020Article
- Sustained Attention and Individual Differences in Adolescents' Mood and Physiological Reactivity to Stress.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
- Depression: A cognitive perspective.Clinical psychology review · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundThis study examined, for the first time, whether attentional biases can be modified in adolescents at risk for depression.
methodsThe final sample consisted of 41 girls at familial risk for depression, who were randomly assigned to receive six sessions (864 trials) of real or sham attention bias training [Real attentional bias training (ABT) vs. Sham ABT]. Participants who received Real ABT completed a modified dot-probe task designed to train attention toward positive and away from negative facial expressions; in contrast, girls who received Sham ABT completed the standard dot-probe task. Attentional biases, self-reported mood, and psychophysiological responses to stress were measured at pre- and post-training assessments.
resultsAs expected, girls who received Real ABT, but not those who received Sham ABT, exhibited significant increases from pre- to post-training in their attention toward happy faces and away from sad faces. Moreover, adolescents who received Real ABT were buffered against the negative outcomes experienced by adolescents who received Sham ABT. Specifically, only adolescents who received Sham ABT experienced an increase in negative mood and a pre- to post-training increase in heart rate in anticipation of the stressor.
conclusionsThe current findings provide the first experimental evidence that attentional biases can be modified in youth at risk for depression and further suggest that ABT modulates the heightened response to stress that is otherwise experienced by high-risk adolescents.
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