The altered early components and the decisive later process underlying attention bias modification in social anxiety: evidence from event-related potentials.

ABSTRACT: Attention bias modification (ABM) is a potential intervention in relieving social anxiety symptoms, while its underlying neural mechanisms are not yet understood. The current study included 63 college students with social anxiety. Participants were assigned to the attention modification program (AMP, n = 20), the attention control condition (ACC, n = 20) and the passive waiting group (PW, n = 23). Questionnaires and the emotional Stroop task with EEG recordings were used to assess whether and how the 4-week ABM period affected emotional symptoms and specific emotional processing. Results showed that the two training groups (AMP and ACC) produced comparable emotional improvements and both showed a decrease in negative bias compared with the PW group. The ERP results indicated that despite n

SUBMITTER: Pan DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7137723 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature