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Effects of anhedonia on health-related quality of life and functional outcomes in major depressive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogeneous group of mood disorders. A prominent symptom domain is anhedonia narrowly defined as a loss of interest and ability to experience pleasure...

1 July 2024

Toward a Better Understanding of the Mechanisms and Pathophysiology of Anhedonia: Are We Ready for Translation?

Anhedonia—the loss of pleasure or lack of reactivity to pleasurable stimuli—remains a formidable treatment challenge across neuropsychiatric disorders. In major depressive disorder, anhedonia has been linked to poor disease course, worse response to psychological, pharmacological, and...

1 July 2022

A qualitative study exploring adolescents’ experience of brief behavioural activation for depression and its impact on the symptom of anhedonia

Objectives. Anhedonia, the loss of interest and pleasure, is a core symptom of depression and is associated with deficits in reward processing. Behavioural Activation fordepression may address...

12 September 2020

Anhedonia severity mediates the relationship between attentional networks recruitment and emotional blunting during music listening

Emotion studies have commonly reported impaired emotional processing in individuals with heightened anhedonic depressive symptoms, as typically measured by collecting single subjective...

29 August 2024

Anhedonia and sensitivity to punishment in schizophrenia, depression and opiate use disorder

From a behavioural perspective anhedonia is defined as diminished interest in the engagement of pleasurable activities. Despite its presence across a range of psychiatric disorders, the cognitive...

1 June 2023

Neural signatures of saliency-mapping in anhedonia: A narrative review

Anhedonia is the loss of pleasure or motivation to engage in previously enjoyable activities, and is a transdiagnostic symptom associated with significant clinical impairment. Anhedonia is implicated in several...

19 July 2024

Anhedonia is associated with a specific depression profile and poor antidepressant response

The presence of anhedonia related to a distinct demographical (living alone) and clinical profile (thyroid diseases, diabetes, suicide risk, high number of previous depressive episodes, more severe MDD, and...

10 November 2024

How well do Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Behavioural Activation for depression repair anhedonia? A secondary analysis of the COBRA randomized controlled trial

A secondary analysis of the COBRA randomized controlled trial was conducted to examine how well Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Behavioural Activation (BA) repair anhedonia... 

27 September 2022

Preliminary clinical and cost effectiveness of augmented depression therapy versus cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of anhedonic depression (ADepT): a single-centre, open-label, parallel-group, pilot, randomised, controlled trial

Anhedonia (reduced interest/pleasure) symptoms and wellbeing deficits are core to depression and predict a poor prognosis. Current depression psychotherapies fail to target these features...


13 July 2023

Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia

Anhedonia, the diminished drive to seek, value, and learn about rewards, is a core feature of major depressive disorder1,2,3. The neural underpinnings of anhedonia and how…

4 December 2024

Ketamine treatment for anhedonia in unipolar and bipolar depression: a systematic review

Ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, is a racemic mixture of esketamine and arketamine used to treat unipolar and bipolar depression. Preliminary reports indicate that it may be...

24 June 2024

Childhood trauma, perceived stress and anhedonia in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: multigroup mediation analysis

Evidence suggests that both childhood trauma and perceived stress are risk factors for the development of psychosis, as well as negative symptoms such as anhedonia. Previous findings link increases...

5 January 2023

Back to the drawing board for anhedonia drugs

Johnson & Johnson has discontinued development of aticaprant for depression with anhedonia, a blow to hopes for drugs for ‘domains’ of psychiatric disorders.


16 April 2025

Association of anhedonia with brain-derived neurotrophic factor and interleukin-10 in major depressive disorder

Anhedonia, a core symptom of major depressive disorder (MDD), manifests in two forms: anticipatory and consummatory, reflecting a diminished capacity to anticipate or enjoy pleasurable activities...

13 July 2024

Social anhedonia, communication, and marital satisfaction in newlywed couples

Social anhedonia is associated with disinterest in social interactions and poor relationship functioning, yet little is known about the specific mechanisms underlying associations between social anhedonia...

7 December 2022

Cannabis and anhedonia: A systematic review

This paper employs a systematic review to examine the correlation between anhedonia and marijuana use, exploring whether individuals with anhedonia use marijuana as a coping mechanism or if marijuana...

14 June 2024

Anhedonia: Current and future treatments

Anhedonia is a transdiagnostic domain that leads to poor disorder outcome and low remission rates. This narrative review describes a broad range of interventions targeting anhedonia, including...

23 March 2025

Music therapy and anhedonia: A case study

Anhedonia is a reduced ability to experience pleasure or enjoy everyday activities. It is a common symptom of many chronic and mental illnesses. This case study outlines a four-month music...

8 August 2025

Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on anhedonia in treatment resistant major depressive disorder

Anhedonia is one of the defining features of depression but it remains difficult to target and treat. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a proven treatment for depression, but its effects on anhedonia... 

28 August 2021

Dulled emotional reactions in individuals with anhedonia linked with prolonged activity of the brain's attentional networks.

Anhedonia-related emotional blunting is linked with abnormally sustained activity in brain areas responsible for attention.

30 August 2024

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