Reward-Processing Behavior in Depressed Participants Relative to Healthy Volunteers
Author(s) -
D. Chamith Halahakoon,
Karel Kieslich,
Ciarán O’Driscoll,
Akshay Nair,
Glyn Lewis,
Jonathan P. Roiser
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jama psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.531
H-Index - 365
eISSN - 2168-6238
pISSN - 2168-622X
DOI - 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.2139
Subject(s) - anhedonia , psycinfo , psychology , clinical psychology , reward system , meta analysis , dysfunctional family , medline , psychiatry , medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , political science , law , psychotherapist
Dysfunctional reward processing is a leading candidate mechanism for the development of certain depressive symptoms, such as anhedonia. However, to our knowledge, there has not yet been a systematic assessment of whether and to what extent depression is associated with impairments on behavioral reward-processing tasks.
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