Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently
expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The …

Most people use the Internet as a functional tool to perform their personal goals in everyday-
life such as making airline or hotel reservations. However, some individuals suffer from a …

Human neuroimaging studies suggest that neural cue reactivity is strongly associated with
indices of drug use, including addiction severity and treatment success. However, little is …

This systematic review and meta-analysis examines the effect of Cognitive Bias Modification
for attention (CBM-A) and interpretation (CBM-I) on reducing the targeted biases and …

A wealth of research from the past two decades shows that addictive behaviors are
characterized by attentional biases for substance-related stimuli. We review the relevant …

Recent concepts of addiction to drugs (eg cocaine) and non-drugs (eg gambling) have
proposed that these behaviors are the product of an imbalance between three separate, but …

Objectives: The purpose of this article is to critically evaluate the following claims derived
from contemporary theoretical models of attentional bias (AB) for food-and drug-related …

The authors argue that human desire involves conscious cognition that has strong affective
connotation and is potentially involved in the determination of appetitive behavior rather …

Neurophysiologic processes underlie the uncontrolled, compulsive behaviors defining the
addicted state. These “hard-wired” changes in the brain are considered critical for the …

Background: The major aim of this study was to investigate whether the motivational
salience of food cues (as reflected by their attention-grabbing properties) differs between …