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.
Prolonged seasickness will in most persons produce a temporary condition
of anhedonia.
First it is a well - marked case
of anhedonia, of passive loss of appetite for all life's values; and second, it shows how the altered and estranged aspect which the world assumed in consequence of this stimulated Tolstoy's intellect to a gnawing, carking questioning and effort for philosophic relief.
Not exact matches
Some persons are affected with
anhedonia permanently, or at any rate with a loss
of the usual appetite for life.
The social avoidance and
anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities) characteristic
of depression move energy resources to ghting infection, and the hypervigilance characteristic
of anxiety disorders is linked to protection from attack and subsequent pathogen exposure.
The total absence
of it,
anhedonia, means collapse.
This inability to enjoy things and feel pleasure (
anhedonia) is a key distinguishing symptom
of depression, says Greene.
The team calculated total GDS scores as well as scores for three clusters symptoms
of depression: apathy -
anhedonia, dysphoria, and anxiety.
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.
This condition is known by the specific name
of musical
anhedonia.
In fact,
anhedonia or the absence
of experiencing pleasure from previously pleasurable activities, such as eating enjoyable food, is a hallmark
of depression.
To this end, he integrates behavioral, electrophysiological, neuroimaging, and, more recently, molecular genetics approaches to investigate three important (endo) phenotypes
of depression:
anhedonia (loss
of pleasure), increased stress sensitivity, and negative processing biases.
Some people experience an even further level
of boredom known as
anhedonia, which is a neurobiologically - based reduction in sensitivity to pleasurable experiences.
With a history
of alcohol abuse, memory problems and
anhedonia, I suspect a possible brain infection.
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.
Neural correlates
of change in major depressive disorder
anhedonia following open - label ketamine
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.
Two question screening tool to measure the frequency
of depressed mood and
anhedonia over the past two weeks.
A short - term longitudinal examination
of the relations between depression,
anhedonia, and self - injurious thoughts and behaviors in adults with a history
of self - injury.
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.
These intermediate states in turn precipitate internalizing problems that map onto empirically derived fear / arousal and
anhedonia / misery subfactors
of internalizing disorders.
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