Trial reportBiological psychology2019
Brain structure changes induced by attention bias modification training.
Trial report in Biological psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The medial prefrontal cortex as a proposed regulatory structure in the relationship between anxiety and perceived social support: a review.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Local and global microstructural and functional thalamomotor connectivity alterations in Parkinson's disease following motor learning.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2026Article
- Attentional bias to threat and gray matter volume morphology in high anxious individuals.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Intrinsic functional connectivity in families genetically enriched for social anxiety disorder - an endophenotype study.EBioMedicine · 2021Article
- What Bias Management Can Learn From Change Management? Utilizing Change Framework to Review and Explore Bias Strategies.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Anticipatory Threat Responding: Associations With Anxiety, Development, and Brain Structure.Biological psychiatry · 2020Article
- "Does attention bias modification induce structural brain changes? A commentary on Abend et al. (2019)" - Response.Biological psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Attention bias modification (ABM) therapy aims to reduce anxiety by changing threat-related attention patterns using computerized training tasks. We examined changes in brain microstructure following ABM training. Thirty-two participants were randomly assigned to one of two training conditions: active ABM training shifting attention away from threat or attention control training involving no attention modification. Participants completed six lab visits, including five training sessions and three diffusion tensor imaging scans: immediately before and after the first training session, and at the end of the training series. Indices of local and global changes in microstructure and connectivity were measured. Significant longitudinal differences in fractional anisotropy (FA) between the active and control training regimens occurred in inferior temporal cortex. Changes in FA occurred across groups within ventromedial prefrontal cortex and middle occipital gyrus. These results indicate specific effects of active ABM on brain structure. Such changes could relate to clinical effects of ABM.
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