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Attention Bias Modification for Transdiagnostic Anxiety

NCT02303691 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2018-03-08

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Summary

This project seeks to identify neural mechanisms underlying the tendency for anxious individuals to pay more attention to threatening information than to other types of information. A computerized treatment designed to train individuals to reduce their attention towards threat will be tested, with a focus on understanding the aspects of brain function that predict response to the treatment. This work could ultimately lead to the ability to treat anxiety more effectively by directly targeting the aspects of brain function that are altered in a given patient.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Attention Bias Modification

Excessive attention to threat is theorized to be a critical contributor to chronic anxiety symptoms and related negative health consequences. Attention Bias Modification, which directly targets this mechanism, is a highly cost-effective intervention with growing empirical support for its potential efficacy in clinically anxious populations.

BEHAVIORAL

Neutral Training

A control version of computerized attention training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-30
Primary Completion
2017-01-31
Completion
2018-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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