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SUBMITTER: Amir N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5082704 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cognitive therapy and research 20160507 5
An attentional bias toward threat may be one mechanism underlying clinical anxiety. Attention bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce symptoms of anxiety disorders by directly modifying this deficit. However, existing ABM training programs have not consistently modified attentional bias and may not reflect optimal learning needs of participants (i.e., lack of explicit instruction, training goal unclear to participants, lack of feedback, non-adaptive, inability to differentiate or target different ...[more]