Professor Ribot has proposed the name anhedonia to designate this condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
It's being looked at to help people with anhedonia, which is an inability to experience pleasure from certain activities. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Ironically, the act of using "anhedonia" in a sentence is one of the least anhedoniacal events imaginable. From Wordnik.com. [NOGOODFORME.COM] Reference
If you can’t take pleasure in things that used to make you happy, it’s called anhedonia, and it’s a sign of serious depression. From Wordnik.com. [Kimveer Gill’s blog « raincoaster] Reference
According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, anhedonia is. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
Anticipatory anhedonia and preservation of consummatory pleasure, responds to suggestion and persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
December 21, 2007 at 3:09 pm my anhedonia en dysthymia en Seasonal Affective Disorder, let me show u it. From Wordnik.com. [depressed cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Mean Things: mirthlessness.anhedonia. cyberleeches, as promised. man-eating plants. more giant arthropods. From Wordnik.com. [there will always be a faster gun, but there'll never be another one like you.] Reference
I was then in a state of acute anhedonia, and their mothers cooked up this notion for restoring my interest in life. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
Did any but the most suicidal, anhedonia-plagued cinema fans actually dig “Jakob the Liar” and “The Final Cut”?. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
Wise, 1982, “Neuroleptics and operant behavior: the anhedonia hypothesis”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5,1: 39-87. From Wordnik.com. [Pleasure] Reference
Aberrations in the need to belong, such as social anhedonia and social anxiety, provide a point of entry for examining this need. From Wordnik.com. [Speedlinking 8/26/07] Reference
Section One (anhedonia) will be my personal journal-type blog, where I relate stories about my life, job, family, and state of mind. From Wordnik.com. [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference
The one thing we, as organisms, find intolerable is anhedonia. From Wordnik.com. [Sadly, No!] Reference
From that episode dates as typical an anhedonia as I have ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
The most common cause of anhedonia is not schizophrenia, but depression. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
You can get an implant into your orbitofrontal cortex to cure anhedonia. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
Mbnl1 −/− mice show decreased sucrose consumption in a test for anhedonia. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Mice were tested for motivation/anhedonia using the sucrose consumption test. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Yet after a while her anhedonia becomes less understandable and more exasperating. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
Deep was this anhedonia, and all exhortations to ` ` brace up and be a man '' failed. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
Prolonged seasickness will in most persons produce a temporary condition of anhedonia. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
But as seen in this film, he seems to suffer from anhedonia, the inability to feel pleasure. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Using the EEfRT, we test the hypothesis that effort-based decision-making is related to trait anhedonia. From Wordnik.com. [Elites TV] Reference
It has been proposed that reduced sensitivity to rewards in rodents might be homologous to human anhedonia. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
As many of you know, I have been plagued ever since I can remember with pervasive, life-draining anhedonia. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Some persons are affected with anhedonia permanently, or at any rate with a loss of the usual appetite for life. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
To be finicky is to court anhedonia, and the joy of life is in robust tastes not easily offended and easily gratified. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
The victims of anhedonia at first pass from one ` ` pleasure '' to another, hoping each will please and satisfy, but it does not. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
His generation didn't care for food much and, in his case this was exacerbated by an entirely justifiable and deep-seated anhedonia. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
This is the eternal tragedy of sophistication, -- that there results an anhedonia in large part manifested by a restless introspection. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
Introverted anhedonia social withdrawal, lack of enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolutionary Explanation for the Link Between Mental Illness & Creativity] Reference
He’d just described mass anhedonia—the rejection of pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test] Reference
For me, this week, it's literary anhedonia. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of Times?] Reference
Oh, poor emo kitteh has dysphoria ‘n’ anhedonia. From Wordnik.com. [depressed cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
This is part of the anhedonia we spoke of. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
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