anhedonia
/ˌanhɪˈdəʊnɪə
/noun [mass noun] Psychiatry
Inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities.The most common symptoms include feelings of anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure in anything), guilt and suicidal ideation....
- The cannabis produced an initial beneficial effect for the patients in that the anergia, anhedonia, and low imaginative capacity caused by the antipsychotic were reversed.
- Certain parallels have been made between the behavioral effects of the immune system, including anhedonia, and the behavioral changes and anhedonia found in depressed people.
Derivatives
anhedonic
- The anhedonic effect of illness and inflammation has received much recent research attention.
- Anhedonic alcoholics may have blunted cortisol response to psychological stress.
- As predicted, patients with major depression scored significantly higher on the anhedonic symptoms scale of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) than did patients with schizophrenia.
Origin
Late 19th century: from French anhédonie, from Greek an- 'without' + hēdonē 'pleasure'.
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