Title

Attention bias modification training as a potential preventative tool

Authors and Researchers

BrainsCAN, Western University
Elizabeth Hayden, Western University
Marc Joanisse, Western University
Pan Liu, Western University
Koraly Perez-Edgar, The Pennsylvania State University
Thomas Olino, Temple University

Files

Description

We will use eye-tracking techniques to understand more about attentional bias and how it changes through ABM training.

Through neuroimaging, we will look at 'resting state functional connectivity', which is the activity and communication in the brain when a person is not engaging in any activity themselves. There are resting-state patterns of brain activity that have been identified in the brains of youth with depression, anxiety and related disorders, but we do not know if these brain patterns can be used to identify those at risk for these disorders. We also don't know if preventative approaches to depression and anxiety, such as ABM, can change these patterns in the brain.

Publication Date

2018

Publisher

BrainsCAN

City

London

Keywords

Aging, Mental health, Mood and emotion and social behaviour, Neurodevelopment

Disciplines

Neurosciences

Funding

Funding Program

BrainsCAN Accelerator Grant: Stimulus

Additional BrainsCAN Support

Human Cognition and Sensorimotor Core,
Imaging Core

Notes

Western Faculty, Group or Institution

Faculty of Social Science, Department of Psychology