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Meaning of anhedonic in English:

anhedonic

adjective

Psychiatry

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‘The anhedonic effect of illness and inflammation has received much recent research attention.’
  • ‘Anhedonic alcoholics may have blunted cortisol response to psychological stress.’
  • ‘As predicted, patients with major depression scored significantly higher on the anhedonic symptoms scale of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) than did patients with schizophrenia.’
  • ‘Anxiety is the indicator of instability in the anhedonic state.’
  • ‘Among socially anhedonic individuals, only a minority shows schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.’