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SUMMARY:Computer-based trainings as an add-on to the treatment of alcohol 
 addiction: Where are we\, how did we get there\, and where should we go? -
  Prof Mike Rinck\, Radboud University
DTSTART:20220616T113000Z
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* Even after extensive treatment\, more than half of
  the treated abstinent alcohol-dependent patients start drinking again. To
  reduce these high relapse rates\, we have developed computer-based traini
 ngs\, aiming to modify the patients' automatic alcohol-approach tendencies
  by means of a simple joystick task. These alcohol-avoidance trainings hav
 e been surprisingly successful\; they reduce relapse rates by about 10%\, 
 on average. In this talk\, I will give an overview of the development\, ev
 aluation\, and implementation of these trainings. I will address successes
  and failures\, I will outline the many open questions that remain\, and I
  will briefly describe extensions of the training to other disorders.\n\n*
 Biography:* Mike Rinck is an Associate Professor at Radboud University Nij
 megen\, The Netherlands\, and an Adjunct Professor at Ruhr-University Boch
 um\, Germany. He was trained as a cognitive psychologist\; and he was alwa
 ys highly interested in applied research questions. His main research area
  is experimental psychopathology: He studies biased cognitive processes su
 ch as attention\, learning\, memory\, associations and interpretations in 
 various mental disorders. More recently\, he worked in the area of Cogniti
 ve Bias Modification\, that is\, the use of computerized training programs
  designed to re-train biased cognitive processes. His special area of expe
 rtise centers around the assessment and modification of automatic approach
 -avoidance tendencies in various mental disorders. For more information on
  Prof Rinck\, please visit: https://www.ru.nl/english/people/rinck-m/
LOCATION:Zoom (Please contact mho28@medschl.cam.ac.uk)
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