ReviewCNS neuroscience & therapeutics2023
A review of attentional bias modification trainings for depression.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Structural and functional brain alterations in subthreshold depression: A multimodal coordinate-based meta-analysis.Human brain mapping · 2024Pooled it
- Theta rhythm-based attention switch training can alleviate the difficulty in disengaging from negative stimuli.iScience · 2026Article
- Virtual reality based attentional bias modification training for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a feasibility study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Psychological stress and physiological outcomes: investigating the impact of attention biases and emotional regulation in Chinese military service members.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Effect of Attentional Bias on Emotions in Patients with Breast Cancer.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- The Impact of Intravenous Ketamine on Attentional Bias: Probing Mechanisms of Rapid-Acting Antidepressant Effects in Two Clinical Studies.Biological psychiatry · 2025Article
- Childhood psychological maltreatment subtypes and depression among Chinese college students: the role of self-compassion and perceived negative attention bias.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Efficacy of traditional and gamified attention bias modification for depression: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Theta Rhythm-Based Attention Switch Training Effectively Modified Negative Attentional Bias.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Article
- Reduced positive attentional bias in patients with borderline personality disorder compared with non-patients: results from a free-viewing eye-tracking study.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2024Article
- Deployment of attention to facial expressions varies as a function of emotional quality-but not in alexithymic individuals.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Current Situation and Mental Health of Pregnant Women During the Prevention and Control of Novel Coronavirus Infection: A Cross-Sectional Study on the Investigation of Influencing Factors.International journal of women's health · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of Enhanced Self-Positivity Bias Training in Mitigating Depressive Mood following Negative Life Events.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A review of attentional bias modification trainings for depression.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2023Review
- Application of attentional bias modification to reduce attentional bias and emotional reactivity to stress in mildly depressed individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Neural activations to loss anticipation mediates the association between difficulties in emotion regulation and screen media activities among early adolescent youth: A moderating role for depression.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- A mechanism-based digital intervention for alexithymia: Design, development, and validation of a multi-modal approach.Digital healthArticle
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Negative attentional bias is a basic character of depression. The attentional bias modification training (ABMT), being a highly promising and easy-to-use depression intervention technique, has attracted much attention to alleviate depressive symptoms in recent years. However, the effectiveness of ABMT programs was mixed across studies, since it remained unclear the underlying mechanisms of ABMT on alleviating depressive symptoms. We systematically analyzed the main ABMT paradigms to clarify possible mechanisms of effective training and reasons of ineffective training. Valid ABMT programs might alleviate depressive symptoms through regulating self-related rumination or two subcomponents of attentional bias: facilitated attention and impaired attentional disengagement. The reasons for the invalidity of ABMT mainly included the suboptimal design of training procedures, mixed effects of participants' personal characteristics, and the unclear relationship between attentional bias and depression. The ABMT is promising for alleviating depressive symptoms, but training procedures are required to be improved to obtain stable training effects.
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