ReviewCurrent topics in behavioral neurosciences2022
Psychological Treatments for Anhedonia.
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- Blunted Ventral Striatal Reactivity to Social Reward Is Associated with More Severe Motivation and Pleasure Deficits in Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- Temporal Predictions from Anhedonia To Anxiety in Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
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- From anxiety to depression: A longitudinal investigation into the role of anhedonia.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Anhedonia: Current and future treatments.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Review
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- Efficacy of a Mobile App-Based Behavioral Intervention (DRIVEN) to Help Individuals With Unemployment-Related Emotional Distress Return to Work: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Sex moderates the effect of anhedonia on parietal alpha asymmetry.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Reward processes in extinction learning and applications to exposure therapy.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2024Review
- Blunted ventral striatal reactivity to social reward is associated with more severe motivation and pleasure deficits in psychosis.Research square · 2024Article
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Abstract
Anhedonia, a loss of interest or pleasure in activities, is a transdiagnostic symptom that characterizes many individuals suffering from depression and anxiety. Most psychological interventions are designed to decrease negative affect rather than increase positive affect, and are largely ineffective for reducing anhedonia. More recently, affective neuroscience has been leveraged to inform treatments for anhedonia by targeting aspects of the Positive Valence Systems, including impairments in reward anticipation, reward responsiveness, and reward learning. In this chapter, we review the efficacy of treatments and, when possible, highlight links to reward constructs. Augmented behavioral approaches and targeted cognitive interventions designed to target reward anticipation, responsiveness, and learning show preliminary efficacy in reducing anhedonia, while there is a relative lack of treatments that target positive emotion regulation and reward devaluation. In addition to developing treatments that address these targets, the field will benefit from establishing standardized measurement of anhedonia across units of analysis, mapping mechanisms of change onto aspects of reward processing, and examining anhedonia outcomes in the long-term.
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