Can understanding reward help illuminate anhedonia?

Kaya, S. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2019) Can understanding reward help illuminate anhedonia? Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 6. pp. 236-242. ISSN 2196-2979 doi: 10.1007/s40473-019-00186-1

Abstract/Summary

Purpose of review: The goal of this paper is to examine how reward processing might help us understand the symptom of anhedonia. Recent findings: There are extensive reviews exploring the relationship between responses to rewarding stimuli and depression. These often include a discussion on anhedonia and how this might be underpinned in particular by dysfunctional reward processing. However, there is no specific consensus on whether studies to date have adequately examined the various sub-components of reward processing or how these might relate in turn to various aspects of anhedonia symptoms. Summary: The approach to understanding the symptom of anhedonia should be to examine all the sub-components of reward processing at the subjective and objective behavioural and neural level, with well validated tasks that can be replicated. Investigating real life experiences of anhedonia and how theses might be predicted by objective lab measures is also needed in future research.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/85603
Identification Number/DOI	10.1007/s40473-019-00186-1
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Neuroscience Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience
Publisher	Springer
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