Depression in Schizophrenia: Are Neuroleptics, Akinesia, or Anhedonia Involved?

Anhedonia in schizophrenia and major depression: state or trait?

BACKGROUND In schizophrenia and major depressive disorder, anhedonia (a loss of capacity to feel pleasure) had differently been considered as a premorbid personological trait or as a main symptom of their clinical picture. The aims of this study were to examine the pathological features of anhedonia in schizophrenic and depressed patients, and to investigate its clinical relations with general ...

Anhedonia in schizophrenia and major depression: state or trait? Review of the literature

The emotion paradox of anhedonia in schizophrenia: or is it?

Anhedonia has long been considered a core clinical feature of schizophrenia. The most common definition of anhedonia is that it reflects a diminished capacity to experience pleasure. Although this definition clearly applies to many individuals diagnosed with major depression, 4–7 recent empirical evidence suggests that it may not adequately describe the affective abnormalities characteristic of...

Anticipatory anhedonia in schizophrenia subjects.

Anticipatory anhedonia in schizophrenia subjects L'anhédonie anticipatoire dans les schizo-phrénies Dear Editors, The distinction between the experience of pleasure related either to online experience in response to a specific stimulus (consummatory pleasure) or to future pleasurable activities (anticipatory pleasure) has been proposed by Klein [7] in a theoretical paper. Recently, accumulated ...

Anhedonia in schizophrenia: a distinct familial subtype?

Failures to replicate results in psychiatric genetics might be due to our inability to define the heritable phenotype. Instead of relying entirely on classical nosographical approaches, the use of a candidate symptom approach to identify more homogeneous forms of diseases among affected subjects and subclinical traits among first-degree relatives may increase genetic validity. Anhedonia may be ...