Sentences with phrase «experienced anhedonia»

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«These loads can consume mental capacity, leading to dull thought and anhedonia — a flattened ability to experience pleasure.»

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.

Some people experience an even further level of boredom known as anhedonia, which is a neurobiologically - based reduction in sensitivity to pleasurable experiences.

A self - report measure to determine anhedonia or an individual's inability to experience pleasure.

Box 4 shows that the sample of 812 patients with pain more frequently experienced depression subscale items reflecting sadness, lack of initiative and anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure) than those reflecting low self - worth and meaningless of life.

Our finding that patients with pain reported that they more frequently experienced the depression subscale items reflecting sadness, lack of initiative and anhedonia than those reflecting low self - worth and lack of meaning is consistent with some earlier research in similar samples of patients with chronic pain.6, 9 It is also interesting to compare these items to those endorsed by patients with both depression and medical illnesses, who invariably favour a cognitive formulation.29