ReviewEvidence-based mental health2021
From cognitive targets to symptom reduction: overview of attention and interpretation bias modification research.
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- A multi-scale, circuit-to-gene signature of approach-bias modification in internet gaming disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Trial
- The effectiveness and neurobiological actions of memory bias modification: a randomized controlled trial.Psychological medicine · 2025Trial
- Cognitive bias modification training of attention and interpretation to reduce expectations of social rejection in adolescents with eating disorders: A small efficacy randomized controlled trial.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Trial
- Negative interpretation bias and repetitive negative thinking as mechanisms in the association between insomnia and depression in young adults.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Examining clinical relevance of interpretation inflexibility in social contexts.Annals of general psychiatry · 2026Article
- PTSD symptoms moderate the effects of interpretation bias modification on hostile interpretation bias and trait anger.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- The interplay between perceived stress, psychological flexibility, and interpretation biases in undergraduate mental health.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Attention Bias in School-Age Children Who Stutter: Evidence From a Dot-Probe Task.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- Examining State Affective and Cognitive Outcomes Following Brief Mobile Phone-Based Training Sessions to Reduce Anxious Interpretations.Cognitive therapy and research · 2025Article
- Efficacy of traditional and gamified attention bias modification for depression: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Machine learning meta-analysis identifies individual characteristics moderating cognitive intervention efficacy for anxiety and depression symptoms.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Combining Unguided Web-Based Attentional Bias Modification and Affective Working Memory Training to Decrease Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Cognitive therapy and research · 2025Article
- Nicotine-related interpretation biases in cigarette smoking individuals.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- An online game-based cognitive bias modification for interpretation (CBM-I) program to reduce fear during the COVID-19 pandemic: resilience as a moderator.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Editorial: Towards an understanding of the cognitive mechanisms involved in threat processing and perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Attentional biases in human anxiety.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Review
- Cognitive processing of emotional information during menstrual phases in women with and without postpartum depression: differential sensitivity to changes in gonadal steroids.Archives of women's mental health · 2022Article
- Development and validation of the Attention Bias Questionnaire (ABQ).International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2022Article
- Gamification improves antidepressant effects of cognitive control training-A pilot trial.Frontiers in digital health · 2022Article
- Time for a paradigm shift for psychotherapies?Evidence-based mental health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cognitive bias modification (CBM) is a class of mechanised psychological interventions designed to target specific aberrant cognitive processes considered key in the aetiology and/or maintenance of specific psychiatric disorders. In this review, we outline a multistage translational process that allows tracking progress in CBM research. This process involves four steps: (1) the identification of reliable cognitive targets and establishing their association with specific disorders; (2) clinical translations designed to rectify the identified cognitive targets; (3) verification of effective target engagement and (4) testing of clinical utility in randomised controlled trials. Through the prism of this multistage process, we review progress in clinical CBM research in two cognitive domains: attention and interpretation; in six psychiatric conditions: anxiety disorders, major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, addictive disorders, eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The review highlights achievement as well as shortcomings of the CBM approach en route to becoming a recognised evidence-supported therapy for these disorders.
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