The association between negative attention biases and symptoms of depression in a community sample of adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a vulnerable time for the onset of depression. Recent evidence from adult studies suggests not only that negative attention biases are correlated with symptoms of depression, but that reducing negative attention biases through training can in turn reduce symptomology. The role and plasticity of attention biases in adolescent depression, however, remains unclear. This study examines the association between symptoms of depression and attention biases, and whether such biases are modifiable, in a community sample of adolescents. We report data from 105 adolescents aged 13-17 who completed a dot-probe measure of attention bias before and after a single session of visual search-based cognitive bias modification training. This is the first study to find a significant association b

SUBMITTER: Platt B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4631462 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature