Attentional bias modification in smokers trying to quit: A longitudinal study about the effects of number of sessions

Lopes, Fernanda Machado; Pires, Augusto Viana; Bizarro, Lisiane

doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2014.03.002

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“…Amir et al, 2008;Suway et al, 2013) and clinical populations (e.g. Attwood et al, 2008;Eldar and Bar-Haim, 2010;Field et al, 2009;Lopes et al, 2014;Schoenmakers et al, 2010;Shafran et al, 2008), only few examined the neural underpinnings of ABM (Britton et al, 2015;Browning et al, 2010;Eldar and Bar-Haim, 2010;Li et al, 2016;Nelson et al, 2015;O'Toole and Dennis, 2012;Osinsky et al, 2014;Suway et al, 2013).…”

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Spatiotemporal brain dynamics underlying attentional bias modifications

Sallard

Hartmann

Ptak

et al. 2018

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Exaggerated attentional biases toward specific elements of the environment contribute to the maintenance of several psychiatric conditions, such as biases to threatening faces in social anxiety. Although recent literature indicates that attentional bias modification may constitute an effective approach for psychiatric remediation, the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms remain unclear. We addressed this question by recording EEG in 24 healthy participants performing a modified dot-probe task in which pairs of neutral cues (colored shapes) were replaced by probe stimuli requiring a discrimination judgment. To induce an attentional bias toward or away from the cues, the probes were systematically presented either at the same or at the opposite position of a specific cue color. This paradigm enabled participants to spontaneously develop biases to initially unbiased, neutral cues, as measured by the response speed to the probe presented after the cues. Behavioral result indicated that the ABM procedure induced approach and avoidance biases. The influence of ABM on inhibitory control was assessed in a separated Go/NoGo task: changes in AB did not influence participants' capacity to inhibit their responses to the cues. Attentional bias modification was associated with a topographic modulation of event-related potentials already 50-84 ms following the onset of the cues. Statistical analyses of distributed electrical source estimations revealed that the development of attentional biases was associated with decreased activity in the left temporo-parieto-occipital junction. These findings suggest that attentional bias modification affects early sensory processing phases related to the extraction of information based on stimulus saliency.

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Spatiotemporal brain dynamics underlying attentional bias modifications

Sallard

Hartmann

Ptak

et al. 2018

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…However, other possible explanation may be the fact that ABM, as an implicit training strategy, 53,55 might have led to some late effects. A recent study 55 showed long-term effectiveness of ABM in a clinical population of smokers, as a positive AB at baseline became immediately negative (avoidance pattern) in the first post-training assessment, remained negative 6 months later and was progressively attenuated, reaching a near-zero level (no AB) in the last assessment 1 year after training.…”

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“…54 In contrast, in the study that included smokers trying to quit, evaluated different numbers of training sessions and followed up participants for 1 year, the assessment of attentional bias revealed differences between groups in the desired direction, but results did not correlate with craving or influenced participants to stop smoking. 55 Finally, of the two studies that compared attend (to drug), avoid (to drug) and control groups, the study with tobacco smokers found post-test differences between groups only for old stimuli, with a higher AB in the attend than in the other groups, but no differences between the avoid and control groups. However, this difference did not remain on the following day, 12 and ABM had no effects on subjective craving or behavioral measures of tobacco seeking.…”

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“…62,65 Similar encouraging results were found in two other recent studies. 63,64 In the first, groups were trained either to attend to healthy food or to attend to unhealthy food, and 33 Avoid (-)/control Yes No Amir et al 6 Avoid (-)/control Yes Yes Hazen et al 26 Avoid (-)/control Yes Yes Heeren et al 27 Avoid (-)/control Yes Yes See et al 28 Avoid (-)/control Yes Yes Heeren et al 29 Avoid (-)/control Yes No MacLeod et al 7 Avoid (-)/attend (+) Yes Yes Browning et al 19 Avoid (-)/attend (+) Yes Yes MacLeod et al 34 Avoid (-)/attend (+) Yes Yes Van Bockstaele et al 35 Avoid (-)/attend (+) Yes No Van Bockstaele et al 36 Avoid (-)/attend (+) Yes No Eldar et al 37 Avoid (-)/attend (+) Partly No O'Toole et al 38 Avoid (-)/attend (+) Partly No Heeren et al 39 Attend (-)/control Yes Yes Krebs et al 40 Attend (-)/control Yes Yes Hayes et al 41 Attend (+)/control Yes Yes Li et al 42 Attend (+)/control Yes Yes Taylor et al 43 Attend (+)/control Yes Yes Wadlinger et al 44 Attend (+)/control Yes Yes Cowart et al 46 Avoid (-) Not applicable Not applicable Amir et al 45 Avoid (-) Yes Yes Brosan et al 47 Avoid (-) Yes Yes Heeren et al 48 Avoid (-)/attend (+)/control Yes Yes Klumpp et al 49 Avoid (-)/attend (+)/control No No Boettcher et al 50 Attend ( 51 Avoid (-)/attend (+) Yes Yes Schoenmakers et al 10 Avoid (-)/control Yes No Schoenmakers et al 53 Avoid (-)/control Yes Partly Kerst et al 54 Avoid (-)/control Yes Partly Lopes et al 55 Avoid (-)/control Yes No McHugh et al 52 Avoid (-)/control No No Fie...…”

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“…53 The use of five ABM training sessions in a group of patients with alcohol dependence was effective and affected treatment progression, as patients in the avoid group took longer to relapse and were discharged before patients in the control group. Similarly, the study with smokers trying to quit 55 …”

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Attentional bias modification based on visual probe task: methodological issues, results and clinical relevance

Lopes

Viacava

Bizarro

2015

Trends Psychiatry Psychother.

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Introduction: Attentional bias, the tendency that a person has to drive or maintain attention to a specific class of stimuli, may play an important role in the etiology and persistence of mental disorders. Attentional bias modification has been studied as a form of additional treatment related to automatic processing. Objectives: This systematic literature review compared and discussed methods, evidence of success and potential clinical applications of studies about attentional bias modification (ABM) using a visual probe task. Methods: The Web of Knowledge, PubMed and PsycInfo were searched using the keywords attentional bias modification, attentional bias manipulation and attentional bias training. We selected empirical studies about ABM training using a visual probe task written in English and published between 2002 and 2014. Results: Fifty-seven studies met inclusion criteria. Most (78%) succeeded in training attention in the predicted direction, and in 71% results were generalized to other measures correlated with the symptoms. Conclusions: ABM has potential clinical utility, but to standardize methods and maximize applicability, future studies should include clinical samples and be based on findings of studies about its effectiveness.

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