ArticleEuropean journal of psychotraumatology2022
Prospective examination of pre-trauma anhedonia as a risk factor for post-traumatic stress symptoms.
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- Assessing social anhedonia in a transdiagnostic sample: Insights from a computational psychiatry lens.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- Childhood unpredictability is associated with increased risk for long- and short-term depression and anhedonia symptoms following combat deployment.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- Trajectories of Anhedonia Symptoms after Traumatic Injury.European journal of trauma & dissociation = Revue europeenne du trauma et de la dissociation · 2024Article
- Holding and rupture: Describing post-traumatic stress among former UK Army and Royal Marine personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Anhedonia, the reduction of pleasure and reward-seeking behaviour, is a transdiagnostic symptom with well-described neural circuit mediators. Although typically observed during disease state, extant hypotheses suggest that anhedonia may also be an early risk factor for development of psychopathology. Understanding the contribution of anhedonia to the trauma-response trajectory may bolster inferences about biological mechanisms contributing to pre-trauma risk versus trauma-related symptom expression, knowledge of which could aid in targeted interventions. Objective: Using a prospective, longitudinal design in a population at risk for trauma disorders, we tested the hypothesis that anhedonia may be a pre-trauma risk factor for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Methods: Adult male participants from the Marine Resilience Study ( Results: Higher pre-deployment anhedonia predicted increased PTSD intrusive re-experiencing symptoms at 3- and 6-months post-deployment when controlling for pre-trauma PTSD and depression symptoms. Depression symptoms were not significant predictors of subsequent PTSD intrusive re-experiencing symptoms. Anhedonia at 3 mo also robustly predicted maintenance of PTSD intrusive re-experiencing symptoms at the 6 mo time point. Conclusions: Pre-deployment anhedonia may be a pre-trauma risk factor for PTSD, not simply a state-dependent effect of trauma exposure and PTSD symptom expression. Anhedonia may contribute to persistence and/or chronicity of re-experiencing symptoms after the emergence of PTSD symptoms.
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