Attention bias modification and the serotonin transporter: personalized treatment implications of gene interactions with learning.

摘要

Threat-related attention biases play a role in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety (1). Initial evidence from a recent meta-analysis suggests that attention bias modification (ABM) procedures reduce anxiety by targeting threat biases (2). However, questions regarding the clinical applications of ABM procedures still exist. In particular, it remains unclear when attention retraining procedures are effective and translate into therapeutic benefit.