This is the first comprehensive volume regarding the anhedonia and related disorders

Preclinical and clinical investigation of the anhedonia as state and trait

Evidence-based monitoring important research developments in this field

Inhalt

Preface.- List of Contributors.- Part 1: Conceptual Issues.- The different components and facets of anhedonia and their associations with different psychopathologies.- Understanding anhedonia: The role of perceived control.- Circadian fluctuation of reward response and synchronization to reward.- Anhedonia in children and adolescents.- Musical anhedonia and visual hypoemotionality: Selective loss of emotional experience in music and vision.- Projecting oneself into the future, an intervention for improving pleasure in patients with anhedonia.- Part 2: Neurobiological Advances.- Translational models of dopaminergic mechanisms for motivational deficits in anhedonic patients.- Brain system for the pleasure of food and other primary rewards.- Neurogenetics and neurobiology of dopamine in anhedonia.- The neuroendocrinology of anhedonia.- Electrophysiological signatures of reward processing in anhedonia.- Neural basis of anhedonia associated with stress-induced eating disorders.- Anhedonia in mouse models of methamphetamine-induced drug seeking behavior.- 14 Brain imaging correlates of anhedonia.- Contents to Volume II.- Contributors to Volume II.- Index.