ReviewPsychology research and behavior management2019
Conceptualizing anhedonias and implications for depression treatments.
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- Assessment of Anhedonia in Adults With and Without Mental Illness: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2020Pooled it
- Comparison of the Antianhedonic Effects of Repeated-dose Intravenous Ketamine in Older and Younger Adults with Major Depressive Episode.Current neuropharmacology · 2025Trial
- The dynamics of loneliness: Longitudinal associations of anhedonia and dampening in a clinical sample of depressed individuals.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Aesthetic Anhedonia and Psychotic Hyper-Meaning: Dysregulated Symbolic Closure Dynamics.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2026Article
- Validation of the specific loss of interest and pleasure scale in non-clinical and clinical populations.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Anhedonic Traits Do Not Impair Performance in a 3-Arm Bandit Task.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Cannabis Use is Related to Anhedonia in Adolescents With Diverse Mood and Anxiety Symptoms.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Temporal Predictions from Anhedonia To Anxiety in Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Unsolved Issues in Anhedonia: A Call for Targeted Inquiry.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2025Article
- Association between anhedonia severity and clinical, humanistic, and economic outcomes among US adults with major depressive disorder.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- From anxiety to depression: A longitudinal investigation into the role of anhedonia.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Reward System EEG-fMRI-Pattern Neurofeedback for Major Depressive Disorder with Anhedonia: A Multicenter Pilot Study.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Establishing content validity of the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2025Article
- The Impact of Anhedonia on the Disease Burden of Major Depressive Disorder in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Cross-Sectional Real-World Study.Neuropsychopharmacology reports · 2025Article
- Investigation of Anhedonia, Emotional Expression, and Emotion Regulation Difficulties in Individuals Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia.Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Assessing relinquishment of positivity as a central symptom bridging anxiety and depression.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Two-year trajectories of anhedonia in adolescents at transdiagnostic risk for severe mental illness: Association with clinical symptoms and brain-symptom links.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Article
- From mood to use: Using ecological momentary assessments to examine how anhedonia and depressed mood impact cannabis use in a depressed sample.Psychiatry research · 2024Article
- Cognitive Signatures of Depressive and Anhedonic Symptoms and Affective States Using Computational Modeling and Neurocognitive Testing.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2024Article
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Abstract
Anhedonia has been implicated as a core symptom of depression and schizophrenia, and studying anhedonia has yielded a wide array of important findings aiding the understanding and identification of psychological disorders. However, anhedonia is a complex and multifaceted construct; indeed, the term anhedonia has been defined in psychological and psychiatric research as many different concepts, a number of which are theoretically and methodologically independent of one another. In this review alone, we discuss research that separates social aspects of anhedonia from the physical contexts of anhedonia, with the former emphasizing interpersonal relationships as important to anhedonic symptoms, and the latter emphasizing biological and brain-related impairment as potential causes of chronic anhedonia states. We highlight research that distinguishes between interest in (wanting) or experience of (liking) potential pleasure as definitions of anhedonia and also disambiguate methodologically and theoretically distinct ways of assessing 1) trait-level dispositional tendencies, 2) state-level cross-sectional assessments, and 3) symptom-based recent changes from baseline, all of which have been used to indicate anhedonia. Lastly, we describe cutting-edge translations of basic anhedonia research into treatment and discuss how different conceptualizations of anhedonia, guided by recent theoretical and methodological advances, have begun to usher in a science of anhedonia that is consistent with increasingly personalized assessment and treatment. We conclude with a note for future research, emphasizing that continued application of theoretically based operationalizations of anhedonia and sound design are paramount to continue the recent progress toward meaningful and specific use of the anhedonia construct in clinical research.
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