ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2019
Attentional bias in depression: understanding mechanisms to improve training and treatment.
Review in Current opinion in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05816564 (Optimizing Attentional Bias Modification for Depression), which is not on this map. Cited by 50 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Optimizing Attentional Bias Modification for Depression: Does Mindfulness Help?
Who cites it
50 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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Abstract
One of the most common symptoms of depression is the tendency to attend to negative stimuli in the world and negative thoughts in mind. This symptom is especially nefarious because it is also a cause - biasing processing to negatively valenced information, thus worsening mood, and exacerbating the condition. Here we attempt to systematize the diverse body of recent research on the negative attentional bias from across cognitive and clinical psychology in order to identify recurring themes and devise potential mechanistic explanations. We leverage theoretical progress in our understanding of healthy attention systems in terms of internal versus external components. With this lens, we review approaches to training attention that might reduce the negative attentional bias, including behavioral interventions and real-time neurofeedback. Although extant findings are somewhat mixed, these approaches provide hope and clues for the next generation of treatments.
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