Chemosensory anhedonia refers to the lack of hedonic ability to experience pleasure through the senses of smell and taste, which reduces the pleasure and comfort of food, and increases the risk of nutritional and immune deficiencies. However, there is no direct scientific evidence regarding chemosensor...
Anhedonia refers to individuals' lack of interest in pleasant activities or withdrawal from...Vilardaga, RogerEstevez, AnaLevin, Michael E.Hayes, Steven C.The Psychological RecordThe Psychological RecordVilardaga, R., Estevez, A., Levin, M. E., & Hayes, S. C. (2012). Deictic Relational...
The brain's pleasure circuits seem to have the ability to be modified based on the stimuli they receive. The circuitry in the brain of individuals with anhedonia may change so that it becomes unable to receive impulses related to pleasure. However, anhedonia may not shut down all the brain's...
Anhedoniarefers to a decrease in the capacity to feel pleasure and, in addition to representing a negative symptom inschizophrenia, is a core symptom of depression (Anisman & Matheson, 2005). Anhedonia in animals has been assessed through measures of sucrose consumption or intracranial self-stimulat...
This suboptimal remission rate can be attributed not only to residual psychiatric [4] or somatic symptoms [5] after acute phase treatment but also to a lack of effective treatments for specific symptoms such as anhedonia and reduced motivation [6]. Anhedonia refers to the inability or diminished...
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) to different sites allows interfering with dysfunctional network function implicated in major depression. Because a prominent clinical feature of depression is anhedonia—the inability to experience pleasure from previously p
Anhedonia refers to the diminished ability to experience pleasure, and is a core feature of schizophrenia (SCZ). The neurocognitive and neural correlates of anhedonia remain elusive. Based on several influential theoretical models for negative symptoms, this selective review proposed four important neuroco...
to diagnose a major depressive disorder: hypothymia and/or anhedonia [3]. Hypothymia is understood as a decrease in the baseline holothymic state, which includes the affective tone and emotional reactivity. Anhedonia is conceptualized as the presence of a reduction or lack of interest or ...