anhedonia

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{143} Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to designate this condition The state of anhedonia, if I may coin a new word to pair off with analgesia," he writes, "has been very little studied, but it exists.

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  1. noun The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

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  • The core symptoms of depression are depressed mood and a lack of interest or pleasure from daily activities (anhedonia). —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • But as seen in this film, he seems to suffer from anhedonia, the inability to feel pleasure.
  • Negative symptoms are the absence of something that is normall present, such as flattened or masked affect, alogia, avolition, anhedonia, and attentional impairment. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • In addition to anhedonia, algesia, and other conditions, he or she has tangled kid hair. —  Blog updates
  • After analyzing the behavior and brain chemistry of salt-deprived rats, the psychologists found that salt, like chocolate and cocaine, affected reward circuitry in the brain, and that salt-deprived rats exhibited anhedonia, a symptom of depression characterized by the inability to enjoy normally pleasurable activities. —  Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
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  1. New Latin anhēdonia : Greek an-, without; see a-1 + Greek hēdonē, pleasure; see swād- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀνήδονος, giving no pleasure, from ἀν- privative + ἡδονή, pleasure: see hedonism.
 

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