Evolution has endowed all humans with a continuum of innate, hard-wired, automatically
activated defense behaviors, termed the defense cascade. Arousal is the first step in …

Prominent cognitive theories postulate that an attentional bias toward threatening
information contributes to the etiology, maintenance, or exacerbation of fear and anxiety. In …

Cognitive biases have been theorized to play a critical role in the onset and maintenance of
anxiety and depression. Cognitive bias modification (CBM), an experimental paradigm that …

BACKGROUND:: Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) is a newly emerging,
promising treatment for anxiety disorders. Although recent randomized control trials (RCTs) …

Clinical anxiety disorders and elevated levels of anxiety vulnerability are characterized by
cognitive biases, and this processing selectivity has been implicated in theoretical accounts …

BACKGROUND: Alcoholism is a progressive neurocognitive developmental disorder.
Recent evidence shows that computerized training interventions (Cognitive Bias …

Anxiety vulnerability and dysfunction are characterized by an attentional bias to threat.
Cognitive training procedures designed to modify selective attentional responding to threat …

Research in experimental psychopathology and cognitive theories of anxiety highlight threat-
related attention biases (ABs) and underpin the development of a computer-delivered …

Adolescence is a period of major risk for depression, which is associated with negative
personal, social, and educational outcomes. Yet, in comparison to adult models of …

Context Attentional bias modification (ABM) treatment is a promising intervention tool for a
variety of clinical conditions. Objectives This study provides an updated review of the clinical …