PMID- 20887977
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110225
LR  - 20220408
IS  - 1873-2402 (Electronic)
IS  - 0006-3223 (Print)
IS  - 0006-3223 (Linking)
VI  - 68
IP  - 11
DP  - 2010 Dec 1
TI  - Attention bias modification treatment: a meta-analysis toward the establishment 
      of novel treatment for anxiety.
PG  - 982-90
LID - 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.07.021 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) is a newly emerging, 
      promising treatment for anxiety disorders. Although recent randomized control 
      trials (RCTs) suggest that ABMT reduces anxiety, therapeutic effects have not 
      been summarized quantitatively. METHODS: Standard meta-analytic procedures were 
      used to summarize the effect of ABMT on anxiety. With MEDLINE, January 1995 to 
      February 2010, we identified RCTs comparing the effects on anxiety of ABMT and 
      quantified effect sizes with Hedge's d. RESULTS: Twelve studies met inclusion 
      criteria, including 467 participants from 10 publications. Attention Bias 
      Modification Treatment produced significantly greater reductions in anxiety than 
      control training, with a medium effect (d = .51 [corrected] (p < .001). Age and 
      gender did not moderate the effect of ABMT on anxiety, whereas several 
      characteristics of the ABMT training did. CONCLUSIONS: Attention Bias 
      Modification Treatment shows promise as a novel treatment for anxiety. Additional 
      RCTs are needed to fully evaluate the degree to which these findings replicate 
      and apply to patients. Future work should consider the precise role for ABMT in 
      the broader anxiety-disorder therapeutic armamentarium.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2010 Society of Biological Psychiatry. All rights reserved.
FAU - Hakamata, Yuko
AU  - Hakamata Y
AD  - Division of Adult Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Tokyo, 
      Japan. yumhakamata@gmail.com
FAU - Lissek, Shmuel
AU  - Lissek S
FAU - Bar-Haim, Yair
AU  - Bar-Haim Y
FAU - Britton, Jennifer C
AU  - Britton JC
FAU - Fox, Nathan A
AU  - Fox NA
FAU - Leibenluft, Ellen
AU  - Leibenluft E
FAU - Ernst, Monique
AU  - Ernst M
FAU - Pine, Daniel S
AU  - Pine DS
LA  - eng
GR  - Z01 MH002781-07/ImNIH/Intramural NIH HHS/United States
GR  - ZIA MH002781-08/ImNIH/Intramural NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Meta-Analysis
PL  - United States
TA  - Biol Psychiatry
JT  - Biological psychiatry
JID - 0213264
SB  - IM
EIN - Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Sep 1;72(5):429
CIN - Biol Psychiatry. 2010 Dec 1;68(11):978-9. PMID: 21075226
MH  - Anxiety/*therapy
MH  - Anxiety Disorders/*therapy
MH  - *Attention
MH  - Behavior Therapy/*methods
MH  - Humans
PMC - PMC3296778
MID - NIHMS243152
COIS- Financial Disclosures All authors report no biomedical financial interests or 
      potential conflicts of interest.
EDAT- 2010/10/05 06:00
MHDA- 2011/02/26 06:00
PMCR- 2012/03/07
CRDT- 2010/10/05 06:00
PHST- 2010/04/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/06/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2010/07/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/10/05 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/10/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/02/26 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2012/03/07 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S0006-3223(10)00766-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.07.021 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Biol Psychiatry. 2010 Dec 1;68(11):982-90. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.07.021.