Trial reportAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2017
A Single Session of Attentional Bias Modification Reduces Alcohol Craving and Implicit Measures of Alcohol Bias in Young Adult Drinkers.
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- Alcohol-Specific Computerized Interventions to Alter Cognitive Biases: A Systematic Review of Effects on Experimental Tasks, Drinking Behavior, and Neuronal Activation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- Mindfulness Training vs Recovery Support for Opioid Use, Craving, and Anxiety During Buprenorphine Treatment: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Effects of attention bias modification for anxiety: Neurophysiological indices and moderation by symptom severity.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2023Trial
- Effects of arousal modulation via resonance breathing on craving and affect in women with substance use disorder.Addictive behaviors · 2022Trial
- Impact of Visual Masking on Attentional Bias in Cross-Sectional Clinical and Healthy Populations: Differences in Conscious and Unconscious Processing of Alcohol-Related Cues.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Exploring Attentional Bias toward Alcohol Content: Insights from Eye-Movement Activity.European addiction research · 2024Article
- Alcohol- and non-alcohol-related interference: An fMRI study of treatment-seeking adults with alcohol use disorder.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Drinking frequency matters: links between consumption pattern and implicit/explicit attitudes towards alcohol.Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- A Scoping Review of Cognitive Bias in Internet Addiction and Internet Gaming Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Brain activation to cannabis- and alcohol-related words in alcohol use disorder.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2019Article
- Failed attempts to improve the reliability of the alcohol visual probe task following empirical recommendations.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundAttentional bias modification (ABM) techniques for reducing problematic alcohol consumption hold promise as highly accessible and cost-effective treatment approaches. A growing body of literature has examined ABM as a potentially efficacious intervention for reducing drinking and drinking-related cognitions in alcohol-dependent individuals as well as those at-risk of developing problem drinking habits.
methodsThis study tested the effectiveness of a single session of visual probe-based ABM training in a cohort of 60 non-treatment-seeking young adult drinkers, with a focus on examining mechanisms underlying training efficacy. Participants were randomly assigned to a single session of active ABM training or a sham training condition in a laboratory setting. Measures of implicit drinking-related cognitions (alcohol Stroop and an Implicit Association Task) and attentional bias (AB; alcohol visual probe) were administered, and subjective alcohol craving was reported in response to in vivo alcohol cues.
resultsResults showed that active ABM training, relative to sham, resulted in significant differences in measures of implicit alcohol-related cognition, alcohol-related AB, and self-reports of alcohol craving. Mediation analysis showed that reductions in craving were fully mediated by ABM-related reductions in alcohol-Stroop interference scores, suggesting a previously undocumented relationship between the 2 measures.
conclusionsResults document the efficacy of brief ABM to reduce both implicit and explicit processes related to drinking, and highlight the potential intervention-relevance of alcohol-related implicit cognitions in social drinkers.
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