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What does anhedonia mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) The inability to feel pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, such as exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions.
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The aforementioned findings suggest that immune activators produced anhedonia, or lack of interest in pleasurable stimuli.
The early clinical picture may be complicated by comorbid depression, apathy, anxiety, and anhedonia.
Those individuals who had a high anhedonia score had a significantly smaller anterior caudate volume.
The Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale assesses symptoms of depression, such as depressed mood, anhedonia, and somatic complaints.
It should be reiterated that the absence of PA denotes anhedonia, which Clark and Watson argued distinguishes depression from anxiety.
Patients with CFS lack feelings of anhedonia, guilt, and decreased motivation classically seen in patients with depression.

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