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ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2025

Anhedonia relates to reduced striatal reward anticipation in depression but not in schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: A transdiagnostic study.

Anna Daniels, Sarah A Wellan, Anne Beck, Susanne Erk, Carolin Wackerhagen, Nina Romanczuk-Seiferth, Kristina Schwarz, Janina I Schweiger, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas Heinz and 1 more

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Article in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2025. 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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  7. Anhedonia in Depressive Disorder and Schizophrenia: An Overview of Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2025
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Anna DanielsCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences | CCM, Berlin, Germany. anna.daniels@charite.de.ORCID 0000-0002-1586-9484
Sarah A WellanCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences | CCM, Berlin, Germany.
Anne BeckHealth and Medical University Potsdam, Faculty of Health, Potsdam, Germany.
Susanne ErkCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences | CCM, Berlin, Germany.
Carolin WackerhagenCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences | CCM, Berlin, Germany.
Nina Romanczuk-SeiferthMSB Medical School Berlin, Department of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.
Kristina SchwarzTechnische Universität Dresden, Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Dresden, Germany.
Janina I SchweigerCentral Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Mannheim, Germany.
Andreas Meyer-LindenbergCentral Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Mannheim, Germany.
Andreas HeinzCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences | CCM, Berlin, Germany.
Henrik WalterCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences | CCM, Berlin, Germany.

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Abstract

Anhedonia, i.e., the loss of pleasure or lack of reactivity to reward, is a core symptom of major psychiatric conditions. Altered reward processing in the striatum has been observed across mood and psychotic disorders, but whether anhedonia transdiagnostically contributes to these deficits remains unclear. We investigated associations between self-reported anhedonia and neural activation during reward anticipation and consumption across patients with schizophrenia (SZ), bipolar disorder (BD), major depressive disorder (MD), and healthy controls (HC). Using the Monetary Incentive Delay paradigm, we acquired functional magnetic resonance imaging data sets in 227 participants (18-65 years), including patients with SZ (n = 44), BD (n = 47), MD (n = 56), and HC (n = 80). To capture anhedonia, three items of the Symptom Checklist-90-R were entered into exploratory factor analysis, which resulted in a single anhedonia factor. Associations between anhedonia and neural activation were assessed within a striatal region-of-interest and exploratorily across the whole brain (p

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AnhedoniaAnticipation, PsychologicalBipolar DisorderCorpus StriatumMajor Depressive DisorderRewardSchizophreniaAdolescentAdultAgedFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedSchizophrenic PsychologyDorsal striatumFMRIMonetary incentive delay paradigmMotivational anhedoniaPutamenReward processing

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