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ArticleJournal of traumatic stress2021

Social Anhedonia is Associated with Low Social Network Diversity in Trauma-Exposed Adults.

Elizabeth A Olson, Diego A Pizzagalli, Isabelle M Rosso

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Article in Journal of traumatic stress, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Early life adversity disrupts adult social reward motivation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  3. Loneliness and self-concept in the relations between Theory of Mind and social anhedonia in adolescents.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth A OlsonMcLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4617-8050
Diego A PizzagalliMcLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7772-1143
Isabelle M RossoMcLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6988-3858
Harvard University · US

Funding

Neuroimaging Studies of Reward Processing in DepressionR37MH068376 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Diego A Pizzagalli · 2016 to 2026
$7.4M
Early Life Stress and Depression: Molecular and Functional Imaging ApproachesR01MH095809 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI DU, FEI, PIZZAGALLI, DIEGO A · 2012 to 2024
$6.4M
Neuroimaging Studies of Reward Processing in DepressionR01MH068376 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI PIZZAGALLI, DIEGO A · 2004 to 2014
$4.5M
Cerebral GABA and Fear Conditioning in PTSDR01MH096987 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI ROSSO, ISABELLE M · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
Social Withdrawal Following Trauma Exposure: a Neuroeconomic ApproachK23MH112873 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI OLSON, ELIZABETH · 2017 to 2021
$803k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social anhedonia has been proposed to contribute to social isolation in several psychiatric disorders, but it has not been examined in relation to deficits in social connection that also characterize posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A growing body of evidence emphasizes the health importance of structural features of social networks, including their size and complexity. The current study examined the association between social anhedonia and social network features in a sample of trauma-exposed participants with and without PTSD as well as in non-trauma-exposed controls. Participants (N = 101; n = 37 healthy controls, n = 23 trauma-exposed without PTSD; n = 41 lifetime PTSD) completed self-report measures of social anhedonia (Revised Social Anhedonia Scale) and structural social network features, including social network size, diversity, and the number of embedded networks (Social Network Index). Relative to healthy controls, participants with PTSD reported significantly lower social network sizes and fewer embedded networks. In the combined trauma-exposed sample, higher ratings of social anhedonia were associated with lower social network diversity, r(62) = -.43, p < .001, an effect that remained statistically significant after controlling for PTSD and depression symptom severity. These results suggest that elevated social anhedonia in trauma-exposed individuals may contribute to disruptions in social network structure consistent with social isolation.

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AnhedoniaSocial NetworkingAdultCase-Control StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSelf ReportStress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

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PMCPMC7903974
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