Some people experience an even further level of boredom known
as anhedonia, which is a neurobiologically - based reduction in sensitivity to pleasurable experiences.
Not exact matches
The team calculated total GDS scores
as well
as scores for three clusters symptoms of depression: apathy -
anhedonia, dysphoria, and anxiety.
Quickly switching between websites may reflect
anhedonia (a decreased ability to experience emotions),
as people desperately seek for emotional stimulation.
Rather than excluding all study subjects who do not fit a DSM diagnosis, such
as major depression, for example, the new approach might include a range of participants with different diagnoses who all demonstrate
anhedonia, the impaired ability to experience pleasure, and might look for underlying brain abnormalities that they share in common.
In fact,
anhedonia or the absence of experiencing pleasure from previously pleasurable activities, such
as eating enjoyable food, is a hallmark of depression.
The goal of this research is to employ a variety of techniques, including electroencephalography (EEG), event - related potentials, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), molecular genetics,
as well
as stress and pharmacological manipulations, to advance the understanding of
anhedonia.
POMS measures levels of depression, anger, hostility, fatigue, and confusion, while DASS gauges other negative mood states
as well, including hopelessness, lack of interest,
anhedonia (lack of pleasure), agitation, irritability, and impatience with other people.
The test characteristics of a two - question case - fidning instrument that asks about depressed mood and
anhedonia were compared with six common case - finding instruments, using the Quick Diagnostic Interview Schedule
as a criterion standard for the diagnosis of major depression.
Minor or subsyndromal depression was defined
as depressed mood or
anhedonia plus ⩾ 1 other SCID defined depressive symptom, at either threshold or subthreshold level.