This term refers to a clinical condition in which a human oran experimental animal cannot experience positive emotional states derived from obtaining a desired or biologically significant stimulus. Generally, certain stimuli serve as positive...

Anhedonia is a condition in which someone cannot experience pleasure or positive emotions. Anhedonia is often a symptom of depression and can also occur with other diseases, such as thyroid disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease,...

Hedonia means a state or condition of PLEASURE. Anhedonia is therefore characterized by the absence of pleasure. Anhedonia is often listed as a symptom of DEPRESSION, and this is meant to describe the lack of responsiveness to normally pleasurable...

In psychology, anhedonia ( an- + Greek hēdonē pleasure ηδονή) is an inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, and social or sexual interaction. Anhedonia is recognized as one of the key...

IN HIS book Woody Allen, John Baxter thanks somebody for the loan of a New York apartment, which "gave me the chance to live and work at the heart of Woody Allen's milieu". Uh? Not only does he relocate the Carlyle but describes that...

PET scans in schizophrenic patients reveal a neural disfunction that may prevent them from experiencing pleasant sensations, said Dr. Benedicto CrespoFacorro and his colleagues at the University of Iowa. When compared with 16 healthy volunteers, 18 adults with schizophrenia (mean age 30 years)...