A review of psychological interventions for internet addiction

L Xu, L Wu, X Geng, Z Wang, X Guo, K Song, G Liu… - Psychiatry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Internet addiction (IA) may constitute a widespread and serious mental problem. Previous
reviews have not fully considered potential factors that may contribute to therapeutic …

Cognitive training for substance use disorders: Neuroscientific mechanisms

A Verdejo-Garcia - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
This article reviews the emerging research on cognitive training for substance use disorders,
and discusses the neuroscientific mechanisms that underlie cognitive training effects in …

Relapse prevention in abstinent alcoholics by cognitive bias modification: Clinical effects of combining approach bias modification and attention bias modification.

M Rinck, RW Wiers, ES Becker… - Journal of consulting …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Alcohol-dependent patients show attentional and approach biases for alcohol-
related stimuli. Computerized cognitive bias modification (CBM) programs aim to retrain …

A clinical trial with combined transcranial direct current stimulation and alcohol approach bias retraining

TE den Uyl, TE Gladwin, M Rinck… - Addiction …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Two studies showed an improvement in clinical outcomes after alcohol approach bias
retraining, a form of Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM). We investigated whether …

Approach-bias retraining and other training interventions as add-on in the treatment of AUD patients

RW Wiers, T Pan, P Van Dessel, M Rinck… - 2023 - Springer
In the past two decades, a variety of cognitive training interventions have been developed to
help people overcome their addictive behaviors. Conceptually, it is important to distinguish …

Electrophysiological and behavioral effects of combined transcranial direct current stimulation and alcohol approach bias retraining in hazardous drinkers

TE den Uyl, TE Gladwin… - Alcoholism: Clinical and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cognitive bias modification (CBM) can be used to retrain automatic approach
tendencies for alcohol. We investigated whether changing cortical excitability with …

How can imaginal retraining for modifying food craving be improved?

JK Larsen, GJ Hollands, S Moritz, RW Wiers, H Veling - Appetite, 2024 - Elsevier
Imaginal retraining (IR) is an emerging intervention technique in which people imagine
avoidance behaviors towards imagined foods or other substances, such as throwing them …

Cue avoidance training and inhibitory control training for the reduction of alcohol consumption: a comparison of effectiveness and investigation of their mechanisms of …

LCG Di Lemma, M Field - Psychopharmacology, 2017 - Springer
Rationale Both cue avoidance training (CAT) and inhibitory control training (ICT) reduce
alcohol consumption in the laboratory. However, these interventions have never been …

[HTML][HTML] Alcohol avoidance training as a mobile app for problem drinkers: longitudinal feasibility study

MC Laurens, ME Pieterse, M Brusse-Keizer… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2020 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background Alcohol use is associated with an automatic tendency to approach alcohol, and
the retraining of this tendency (cognitive bias modification [CBM]) shows therapeutic promise …

Alcohol-specific computerized interventions to alter cognitive biases: a systematic review of effects on experimental tasks, drinking behavior, and neuronal activation

HM Batschelet, M Stein, RM Tschuemperlin… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: In patients with alcohol use disorder, novel interventions to increase
abstinence have attracted growing attention. Interventions aimed at modifying cognitive …