Trial reportTranslational psychiatry2019
Measuring change in anhedonia using the "Happy Faces" task pre- to post-repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatment to left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD): relation to empathic happiness.
Trial report in Translational psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Examining the relationship between pre-treatment anhedonia and treatment outcomes in individuals with anxiety or depression: A systematic review.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of non-invasive brain stimulation and digital intervention on social cognitive therapy in autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Individualized Subcortical Functional Brain Organization Is Related to Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Behavior in Major Depressive Disorder.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Article
- A transdisciplinary framework for empathy research.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- From Neural Circuits to Behavior: Examining the Central Role of Anhedonia in Major Depression.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Multilevel brain functional connectivity and task-based representations explaining heterogeneity in major depressive disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Anhedonia as a Core Symptom of Depression and a Construct for Biological Research.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2025Article
- Anhedonia: Current and future treatments.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Review
- Different activation in left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left orbitofrontal cortex during autobiographical memory tasks is associated with depressive disorder with different levels of resilience: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Unique versus shared neural correlates of externalizing psychopathology in late childhood.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Article
- Anhedonia and Depressive Disorders.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Review
- The Neural Correlates of the Recognition of Emotional Intensity Deficits in Major Depression: An ERP Study.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2023Article
- Circuit-Targeted Neuromodulation for Anhedonia.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2022Review
- Change of Circulating Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Level and Reduction of Anhedonia Are Associated in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder Treated With Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Neural signatures of saliency-mapping in anhedonia: A narrative review.Psychiatry research · 2021Review
- Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on anhedonia in treatment resistant major depressive disorder.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- Distinct Symptom-Specific Treatment Targets for Circuit-Based Neuromodulation.The American journal of psychiatry · 2020Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
We investigated whether repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) would reduce anhedonia in a sample of 19 depressed adults (M
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