Quantitative evaluation of the clinical efficacy of
attention bias modification treatment for anxiety disorders.
Also, this finding is in accordance with previous studies which showed that pre-exposure to food cues leads to
attention bias towards delicious foods in restrained eaters, so that, higher degrees of pleasure from delicious foods leads to increase in
attention bias towards those foods (26-28).
Research Review:
attention bias modification (ABM): a novel treatment for anxiety disorders.
Attention bias is preferentially sustained by affective significance stimuli (17), which can be recorded by P200 and P300 registered in the frontal and parietal areas of the brain.
Gradually, the patient begins to focus on that stimulus instead, predicting that this is where the dot will appear - helping to normalize the
attention bias pattern and reduce anxiety.
For example, behavioural inhibition in toddlers has predicted later social withdrawal in children who showed an attentional bias to threat at 5 years old [21], and
attention bias to threat in adolescence has predicted adolescent social withdrawal [22].
It discusses emotion, attention, and information processing, including basic conceptual and theoretical issues, the selection of emotional stimuli, attentional bias in emotional disorders like depression and anxiety, affective bias in attention, and attention deficits in emotional disorders; cognitive content and process in emotional disorders, including distressing intrusive thoughts, interactionist approaches to stress, self-focused attention, attention manipulations, and whether attentional disorder is the cause or consequence of emotional problems; and a new theoretical model of attention and self-regulation that explains the development and maintenance of clinical problems and accounts for laboratory data on
attention bias and performance and its clinical implications.
The results indicated that there was a significant difference for the HHA group, according to coping strategy, F(1, 63) = 5.59, p < .05; however, there was no significant difference in
attention bias in the LHA group, F(1, 63) = 0.34, ns.