Relationships of Anhedonia to Physiological Reactivity and Threshold
- 1 August 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 31 (1) , 43-46
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1972.31.1.43
Abstract
Anhedonia—the inability to experience pleasure—is a cardinal symptom of schizophrenia, but its role is poorly understood because it has been subjected to very little systematic research. In the present study, the relationships of anhedonia to a variety of physiological reactivity and threshold measures were studied in a group of 76 psychiatric hospital patients. The results were negative. The results suggest that clinical anhedonia is not a function of hypo-reactivity.Keywords
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