Pre-Treatment Attention Bias Is Not Related to Treatment Response in a Randomized Controlled Trial on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Plus Adjunctive Attention Bias Modification Training

Poster Session IX

Keyword: Mood Disorders

Abstract: Anxious individuals are thought to exhibit an attention bias toward threatening stimuli. This study investigates whether attention bias assessed pre-treatment using an eye-tracking task associates with social anxiety symptom improvement in a randomized controlled trial of attention bias training+CBT. Results show no significant associations between attention bias and symptom reduction.

• Evie Chen (Presenting Author)
• Meghan Byrne (Author)
• Simone Haller (Author)
• Julia Linke (Author)
• Krystal Lewis (Author)
• Erin Berman (Author)
• Lauren Henry (Author)
• Katharina Kircanski (Author)
• Amit Lazarov (Author)
• Yair Bar-Haim (Author)
• Melissa Brotman (Author)
• Daniel Pine (Author)