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A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study Exploring the Additive Clinical Effect of Cognitive Bias Modification-Memory in Depressed Inpatients
Depression often leads to clinical admission. Stimulating positive memory bias through repeated retrieval can counteract a ruminative depressotypic processing style. Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM)-Memory is...
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Open AccessAttention and Interpretation Bias Modification Transfers to Memory Bias: Testing the Combined Cognitive Bias Hypothesis
This study delves into the combined cognitive bias hypothesis in depression, exploring the interaction between negative attention, interpretation and memory biases. We aimed to assess whether modifying attenti...
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Open AccessAutistic and non-autistic individuals show the same amygdala activity during emotional face processing
Autistic and non-autistic individuals often differ in how they perceive and show emotions, especially in their ability and inclination to infer other people’s feelings from subtle cues like facial expressions....
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Open AccessStriatal connectopic maps link to functional domains across psychiatric disorders
Transdiagnostic approaches to psychiatry have significant potential in overcoming the limitations of conventional diagnostic paradigms. However, while frameworks such as the Research Domain Criteria have garne...
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Open AccessThe effects of daily autobiographical memory training on memory bias, mood and stress resilience in dysphoric individuals
Negative memory bias refers to the enhanced recall of negative memories and is a prominent cognitive factor causing and maintaining depression. Surprisingly few studies modify this negative recall. The current...
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Open AccessA randomized controlled trial of cognitive control training (CCT) as an add-on treatment for late-life depression: a study protocol
Already a major health concern, late-life depression (LLD) is expected to form an increasing problem in the aging population. Moreover, despite current treatments, LLD is associated with a poor long-term progn...
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Open AccessIs a Negative Attentional Bias in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder Explained by Comorbid Depression? An Eye-Tracking Study
Heightened attention towards negative information is characteristic of depression. Evidence is emerging for a negative attentional bias in Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), perhaps driven by the high comorbidity...
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Emotional Memory: Concluding Remarks to the Special Issue on Memory Training for Emotional Disorders
Basic research on emotional memory has given rise to important innovations in research on memory training in the context of psychopathology. In the special issue om memory training research is presented on (1)...
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Open AccessExercise enhances: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial on aerobic exercise as depression treatment augmentation
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a considerable public health concern. In spite of evidence-based treatments for MDD, many patients do not improve and relapse is common. Therefore, improving treatment outcom...
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Open AccessAn exploration of the conditions for deploying self-management strategies: a qualitative study of experiential knowledge in depression
Living with recurrent, and/or chronic depression requires long-term management in addition to active co** on a day-to-day basis. Previous research on long-term management, and co** with depression mainly f...
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Open AccessA Pilot Study of Smartphone-Based Memory Bias Modification and Its Effect on Memory Bias and Depressive symptoms in an Unselected Population
Memory bias modification (MBM) is a relatively new approach at targeting biased processing—a central cognitive factor causing and maintaining depression. In this pilot study we aimed to develop a smartphone-ba...
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Open AccessEffects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on a Behavioural Measure of Rumination in Patients with Chronic, Treatment-Resistant Depression
It has been found that Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) reduces rumination in remitted and currently depressed patients. However, less is known about the effects of MBCT on rumination in chronically ...
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Open Access„Cognitive bias modification“ als mögliche Add-on-Therapie bei Depression
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Open AccessADHD symptoms in healthy adults are associated with stressful life events and negative memory bias
Stressful life events, especially Childhood Trauma, predict ADHD symptoms. Childhood Trauma and negatively biased memory are risk factors for affective disorders. The association of life events and bias with A...
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Open AccessPracticing Emotionally Biased Retrieval Affects Mood and Establishes Biased Recall a Week Later
Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) can yield clinically relevant results. Only few studies have directly manipulated memory bias, which is prominent in depression. In a new approach to CBM, we sought to simulate o...
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Open AccessA randomized controlled trial of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) versus treatment-as-usual (TAU) for chronic, treatment-resistant depression: study protocol
Major depression is a common psychiatric disorder, frequently taking a chronic course. Despite provision of evidence-based treatments, including antidepressant medication and psychological treatments like cogn...
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Coherence Between Attentional and Memory Biases in Sad and Formerly Depressed Individuals
Cognitive theories assume a uniform processing bias across different samples, but the empirical support for this claim is rather weak and inconsistent. Therefore, coherence between biases across different cogn...
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Can Memory Bias be Modified? The Effects of an Explicit Cued-Recall Training in Two Independent Samples
Cognitive bias modification (CBM) has been found to be effective in modifying information-processing biases and in reducing emotional reactivity to stress. Although modification of attention and interpretation...
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Open AccessApproach and Avoidance of Emotional Faces in Happy and Sad Mood
Since the introduction of the associative network theory, mood-congruent biases in emotional information processing have been established in individuals in a sad and happy mood. Research has concentrated on me...
