Anhedonia in Schizophrenia: the Role of Subjective Experiences in the Emotion Paradox

Abstract

in the anticipatory but not the consummatory subscale of the TEPS. FBF mediate the relationship between S and all the Anhedonia Scales. FBF Memory and Overstimulation subscales were the greatest predictors of all the anhedonia scores in the S group. We suppose that these experiences prevent patients from retaining a positive experience from past pleasant activities and, consequently, the lack of anticipatory pleasure would represent an avoidance of potentially stressing new scenarios. Conclusion: Considering the primary nature of BS, anhedonia in schizophrenic patients could be seen as a secondary phenomenon.

Social anhedonia and asociality in psychosis revisited. An experience sampling study

“…The assessments of the structured social contexts revealed rather expected evidence for the anhedonia paradox: patients spent smaller proportion of their time in this company despite their intact hedonic experience of it (Fortunati et al, 2015;Strauss, 2013). This finding aligns with emerging experimental evidence for a disconnect between self-reported hedonics and the corresponding motivated behavior in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (Heerey and Gold, 2007;Lui et al, 2016).…”