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Anhedonia is a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure. [1] While earlier definitions emphasized the inability to experience pleasure, anhedonia is currently used by researchers to refer to reduced motivation, reduced anticipatory pleasure (wanting), reduced consummatory pleasure (liking), and deficits in reinforcement learning.
Reduced affect display, sometimes referred to as emotional blunting or emotional numbing, is a condition of reduced emotional reactivity in an individual. It manifests as a failure to express feelings either verbally or nonverbally, especially when talking about issues that would normally be expected to engage emotions.
It is thought that people with sexual anhedonia have a dysfunction in the release of the chemical dopamine in the nucleus accumbens, the brain's primary reward center.This part of the brain is thought to play a role in pleasurable activities, including laughter, exercise, and music.
Hedonic adaptation is an event or mechanism that reduces the affective impact of substantial emotional events. Generally, hedonic adaptation involves a happiness "set point", whereby humans generally maintain a constant level of happiness throughout their lives, despite events that occur in their environment.
Diego A. Pizzagalli is a Swiss neuroscientist, a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.., [1] the Founding Director of the Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research (CDASR), [2] the Director of the McLean Imaging Center, [3] the Director of Research for the Division of Depression & Anxiety Disorders, [4] the Director of the McLean Conte Center for the Neurobiology of ...
Musical anhedonia is a neurological disorder characterized by an inability to derive pleasure from music. [1] People with this condition, unlike those suffering from music agnosia, can recognize and understand music but fail to enjoy it.
Example: "Changing of mood are the most likely to observe in psychiatric disorder. They are the significant symptoms of depression but they can be easily seen in other psychiatric disorders during physical illness. In healthy people, changing mood is also prominent when encountering stressful events"
The use of the term in psychology entered English with the translation from German ("Valenz") in 1935 of works of Kurt Lewin.The original German word suggests "binding", and is commonly used in a grammatical context to describe the ability of one word to semantically and syntactically link another, especially the ability of a verb to require a number of additional terms (e.g. subject and ...