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Project

Understanding the Causal Role of Attention Biases in Depression: Experimental manipulation of attention using Eye-Tracking Techniques
Code
3E015514
Duration
01 October 2014 → 01 April 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Animal experimental and comparative psychology
    • Applied psychology
    • Clinical and counseling psychology
    • Human experimental psychology
    • Other psychology and cognitive sciences
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
    • Nursing
    • Other paramedical sciences
    • Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Keywords
depression visual attention Cognitive Bias Modification
 
Project description

The aim of this project is to develop new techniques to manipulate attention biases in depression. A procedure targeting attention biases will be developed to clarify their role in social disturbance. Another procedure will analyze the role of attention-interpretation interplays in depressive disturbances. Finally, these techniques will be used with depressed patients to clarify their efficacy in modifying clinical symptoms.