کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
902225 916141 2009 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Attenuation of attention bias in obsessive–compulsive disorder
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی روانپزشکی و بهداشت روانی
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Attenuation of attention bias in obsessive–compulsive disorder
چکیده انگلیسی

Cognitive theories of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) suggest that the disorder is characterized by an attention bias towards personally relevant threatening material. However, existing research on attention bias in OCD has yielded conflicting findings. One possibility that might account for the null findings is that attention bias may diminish over the course of the experiment. The present study tested this hypothesis using a visual dot-probe task with idiographic word selection. Results from our study confirmed that individuals with OC symptoms show an attention bias towards idiographically selected, threatening information in the first block of trials, and that the degree of this bias is correlated with the severity of OC symptoms. The temporal pattern of attention bias over the course of the experiment was consistent with our hypothesis. A comparison of early and late blocks of trials revealed an attenuation of attention bias in individuals with OC symptoms, potentially reflecting habituation to threatening information over the course of the experiment.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Behaviour Research and Therapy - Volume 47, Issue 2, February 2009, Pages 153–157
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