It was found that ABMT showed improvements to performance during stress tasks. Following the assigns to the apps, subjective anxiety, and stress responses (observed and reported) were measured. EEG recordings were taken during pre- and post-training threat bias assessment to determine neurocognitive responses to threats. Participants would be randomly assigned to either an ABMT or a placebo condition. )Ī gamified ABMT mobile application, Personal Zen, was utilized in a study of 42 (21 female) trait anxious adults. The long sessions showed reductions in core cognitive processes with stress and anxiety.

It was found that ABMT sessions, relative to the placebo one, reduced subjective anxiety, and observed reactivity.

Participants were randomly assigned to either a placebo condition or either a single long ABMT (45 minutes) or short ABMT session (25 minutes). 78 highly trait anxious participants were drawn from an Introduction to Psychology course at an urban university in New York City. A 2014 study examined if a mobile intervention using attention-bias modification training (ABMT) (Personal Zen uses this type of training) would be an effective treatment for stress and anxiety.

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