Your patients being treated for major depressive disorder may still have residual anhedonia1
Anhedonia is the inability to enjoy experiences or activities that would normally be pleasurableand it affects ~75% of patients with MDD.2
How do you evaluate symptoms of
residual anhedonia
in your patients living with MDD?
Footnotes and Definitions
MDD=major depressive disorder.
References
Höflich A, Michenthaler P, Kasper S, Lanzenberger R. Review: circuit mechanisms of reward, anhedonia, and depression. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 2019;22(2):105–118.
Franken IHA, Rassen E, Muris P. The assessment of anhedonia in clinical and non-clinical populations: further validation of the Snaith–Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS). J Affect Dis. 2007;99:83–89.
