A randomized controlled trial of gaze-contingent music reward therapy for major depressive disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heightened attention allocation toward negative-valanced information and reduced attention allocation toward positive-valanced information represent viable targets for attention bias modification in major depressive disorder. Accordingly, we conducted a randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of a novel gaze-contingent attention bias modification procedure for major depressive disorder.

Method

Sixty patients with major depressive disorder were randomly assigned to either eight training sessions of feedback-based gaze-contingent music reward therapy designed to divert patients' gaze toward positive over sad stimuli, or to a control condition which entailed eight sessions of gaze-noncontingent music. Clinician-rated and self-reported measures of depression,

SUBMITTER: Shamai-Leshem D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10265940 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature