2019
SEPTEMBER
Auditing of databases within the studies completed.
Analysis of data began at San Diego State University.
AUGUST
Community-based study to test the effectiveness of the CBM mobile app for the treatment of depression completed.
JUNE
Community-based study to test the effectiveness of the CBM mobile app for the treatment of depression completed.
2018
DECEMBER
Analysis of data begins for study to test the effectiveness of the CBM mobile app as a stand-alone treatment for OCD/Anxiety.
NOVEMBER
Target of 60 participants reached for stand-alone treatment of OCD/Anxiety mobile app study..
JUNE
Nearly 75% of participants recruited for the community-based study to test the effectiveness of the CBM mobile app for the treatment of depression. This study is set to conclude in late 2018 or early 2019.
2017
SEPTEMBER
Start of study to test effectiveness of the CBM app as an enhancement to treatment of depression in a residential setting.
JULY
Start of community-based study to test effectiveness of the CBM app for treatment of depression.
JANUARY
Start of study to test the CBM app’s effectiveness in enhancing OCD/Anxiety treatment in a residential treatment setting.
2016
SEPTEMBER
Start of study to test the effectiveness of the CBM app as stand-alone treatment for OCD/Anxiety.
Onset of content development to test the app’s effectiveness in treating depression.
Decision is made to use an ‘interpretation bias approach’ with this content instead of the ‘attention bias approach’ used in the OCD study.
AUGUST
Completion of software updates – app and cloud-based versions. Program renamed “Cognitive Bias Modification.”
Initial meetings held with Drs. Riemann and Amir regarding methodological design for depression studies.
These studies will include: 1) adjunctive treatment tool with community participants, and 2) adjunctive treatment tool with residential patients at the Kubly FOCUS Center at Rogers.
Launch of marketing campaign to recruit community participants for the OCD/Anxiety stand-alone study.
JULY
Beginning of content development for a specific treatment program for depression with further plans to conduct two clinical studies via mobile application.
MAY
OCD app study team and depression app study team hired.
Two research assistants, two research coordinators, two post-doctoral fellows.
FEBRUARY
Updating of evidence-based software for mobile applications begins.
Financial funding from donors generates opportunities to move the “Attention Retraining Program” forward.
Commitment from the Walter and Catherine Lindsay Fund for the OCD app study. (2/16)
Commitment from the Pisani Family Foundation for the OCD app study. (1/16)
2015
Financial funding from donors continues.
Commitment from the Maya-Capelouto Family Fund for the OCD app study. (11/15)
Commitment from Rich and Susan Redelfs to support a clinical study of the OCD program on a mobile phone (OCD app study) to find out whether the program is effective on a mobile phone screen. (10/15)
Commitment from Billie and Dr. Michael Kubly to develop a software-based depression treatment tool and research its effectiveness, including an app version as a stand-alone tool or as an adjunctive tool to existing treatment. (8/15)
Commitment from the Pisani Family Foundation to fund complete overhaul and update of the existing software, the development of an app-version, a cloud-based version and administrative site. (4/15)
2014
Advances in mobile technologies, combined with the growing challenges of affordability and accessibility of mental health treatment, spark a vision for use of the software program in mobile platforms.
2013
Published study on the Attention Modification desktop computer software program as an adjunctive treatment tool to standard treatment of choice: “Riemann et al. published a study on Attention Modification desktop software program as an adjunctive treatment tool to standard treatment of choice. Riemann, B. C., Kuckertz, J. M., Rozenman, M., Weersing, V. R., & Amir, N. (2013) Augmentation of Youth Cognitive….” Anxiety 30: 822-828.
2009
Amir et al., developed the first clinical application of a software program for general anxiety. Development of other clinical applications, e.g. social anxiety, combat PTSD, OCD… followed.
2002
MacLeod et al., published the first study on attention modification through a software program. MacLeod, C.; Rutherford, E.; Campbell, L.; Ebsworthy, G.; Holker, L. (2002). “Selective attention and emotional vulnerability: Assessing the causal basis of their association through the experimental manipulation of attentional bias”. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 111 (1): 107–123. doi:10.1037/0021-843x.111.1.107.
1994
Brad Riemann, PhD, and Nader Amir, PhD, and others helped to establish the concept of attention bias in patients with OCD by measuring construct of this bias via an innovative computer software program called the “Attention Modification Program.”