Anhedonia
”Anhedonia may be defined as the loss of interest or pleasure during the same 2-week period that represents a change from previous functioning diagnoses.Losing the ability to experience pleasure or interest may be a pathway to suicidality. For example, anhedonia has been found to be associated with suicidality independent of several other depressive symptoms in the general population and in children and adolescents.”
(Winer et al., 2014)
“When individuals have recently experienced an increase in symptoms of anhedonia, those symptoms are debilitating at a motivational level, keeping them from pursuing rewarding goals regardless of action orientation and therefore potentially increasing their dysfunction related to depression.”
(Bryant et al., 2017)
Lab Publications
Anhedonia predicts suicidal ideation
Winer, E. S., Nadorff, M. R., Ellis, T. E., Allen, J. G., Herrera, S., & Salem, T. (2014). Anhedonia predicts suicidal ideation in a large psychiatric inpatient sample. Psychiatry research, 218(1-2), 124-128.
The association between anhedonia, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts
Winer, E. S., Drapeau, C. W., Veilleux, J. C., & Nadorff, M. R. (2015). The Association between Anhedonia, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicide Attempts in a Large Student Sample. Archives of Suicide Research, 20(2), 265–272. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2015.1025119
Development and validation of the Specific Loss of Interest and Pleasure Scale (SLIPS)
Winer, E. S., Veilleux, J. C., & Ginger, E. J. (2014). Development and validation of the Specific Loss of Interest and Pleasure Scale (SLIPS). Journal of affective disorders, 152-154, 193–201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2013.09.010
Mapping the relationship between anxiety, anhedonia, and depression
Winer, E. S., Bryant, J., Bartoszek, G., Rojas, E., Nadorff, M. R., & Kilgore, J. (2017). Mapping the relationship between anxiety, anhedonia, and depression. Journal of affective disorders, 221, 289–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.06.006
A short-term longitudinal examination of the relations between depression, anhedonia, and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in adults with a history of self-injury
Zielinski, M. J., Veilleux, J. C., Winer, E. S., & Nadorff, M. R. (2017). A short-term longitudinal examination of the relations between depression, anhedonia, and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in adults with a history of self-injury. Comprehensive psychiatry, 73, 187–195.
Conceptualizing anhedonias and implications for depression treatments
Winer, E. S., Jordan, D. G., & Collins, A. C. (2019). Conceptualizing anhedonias and implications for depression treatments. Psychology research and behavior management, 12, 325–335. https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S159260
Struggling toward reward: Recent experience of anhedonia interacts with motivation to predict reward pursuit in the face of a stressful manipulation
Bryant, J., Winer, E. S., Salem, T., & Nadorff, M. R. (2017). Struggling toward reward: Recent experience of anhedonia interacts with motivation to predict reward pursuit in the face of a stressful manipulation. PloS one, 12(3), e0173439. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173439
Combined behavioral markers of cognitive biases are associated with anhedonia
Salem, T., Winer, E. S., & Nadorff, M. R. (2018). Combined behavioural markers of cognitive biases are associated with anhedonia. Cognition & emotion, 32(2), 422–430. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2017.1307808
Longitudinal evaluation of anhedonia as a mediator of fear of positive evaluation and other depressive symptoms
Jordan, D. G., Winer, E. S., Salem, T., & Kilgore, J. (2018). Longitudinal evaluation of anhedonia as a mediator of fear of positive evaluation and other depressive symptoms. Cognition & emotion, 32(7), 1437–1447. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2017.1289895
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