Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM)

Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) is new psychiatric therapy; involving just a few 15-minute sessions and no drugs, discussion of feelings, or even a psychiatrist, it is described as a cognitive vac...

Stridor

Stridor is a high pitched wheezing sound resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway. It is primarily inspiratory. It can be indicative of serious airway obstruction from severe conditions...

Obinutuzumab

A glycoengineered, fully humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody with potential antineoplastic activity. Obinutuzumab, a third generation type II anti-CD20 antibody, selectivity binds to the extracellula...

Toll Like Receptor TLR

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a class of proteins that play a key role in the innate immune system. TLRs have become attractive targets for activation or antagonism in pharmaceutical research. TLR ag...

poly adenyl ribose polymerase PARP Inhibitors

Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs) are a family of nuclear enzymes implicated in the regulation of multiple physiological cellular functions, including DNA repair, gene transcription, protein modif...

Attention Bias Modification for Social Anxiety Disorder

Attention bias modification training has shown great promise in treatment of social phobia in a clinical setting. Can similar results be achieved with an internet-delivered home based program? BMC P...

Pediatric Anxiety Disorders Addressed By Attention Bias Modification Via Computer

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, one in eight children suffers from an anxiety disorder. And because many anxious children turn into severely anxious adults, early inter...

Study Reports Reflect Researchers' Bias (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- A third of randomized clinical trials in breast cancer had published results that showed bias in the reporting of endpoints, and two-thirds showed bias in reporting toxicity, author...

Forest Labs hit with $100 mln gender bias lawsuit

* Female sales reps claim bias in pay, bonuses, promotions

UPDATE 2-Forest Labs hit with $100 mln gender bias lawsuit

* Female sales reps claim bias in pay, bonuses, promotions

UPDATE 1-Forest Labs hit with $100 mln gender bias lawsuit

* Female sales reps claim bias in pay, bonuses, promotions

Cognitive bias modification: A new approach to treating emotional disorders

(Medical Xpress) -- A new approach to preventing and treating anxiety and depression may be used to improve the emotional health of fly-in fly-out workers and people living in bushfire-prone areas.

Nonblinded Assessments May Bias Clinical Trial Outcomes

A lack of blinding can result in observer bias in randomized controlled trials with subjective outcomes. Medscape Medical News

Socially Anxious Primary Care Patients' Attitudes Toward Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM): A Qualitative Study.

Background: Cognitive bias modification (CBM) is a novel treatment for anxiety disorders that utilizes computerized tasks to train attention and interpretation biases away from threat. To date, attitu...

Fewer intrusions after an attentional bias modification training for perceptual reminders of analogue trauma.

The present experimental analogue study used computerised attention training to investigate the role of attention bias in the prediction of intrusive memories. After exposure to a trauma film, partici...

Nonconscious attention bias to threat is correlated with anterior cingulate cortex gray matter volume: a voxel-based morphometry result and replication.

An important aspect of the fear response is the allocation of spatial attention toward threatening stimuli. This response is so powerful that modulations in spatial attention can occur automatically w...

Attention is required for acquisition but not expression of new response biases.

Throughout a lifetime of interaction with the physical environment, people develop a strong bias to respond on the same side as the location of a target object, even when its location is irrelevant to...

Emotion regulation predicts attention bias in maltreated children at-risk for depression.

Background:  Child maltreatment is associated with heightened risk for depression; however, not all individuals who experience maltreatment develop depression. Previous research indicates that maltr...