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A Review of Anticipatory Pleasure in Schizophrenia

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Abstract

Purpose of Review

Anhedonia, traditionally defined as a diminished capacity to experience pleasure, has long been considered a core symptom of schizophrenia. However, recent research calls into question whether individuals with schizophrenia are truly anhedonic, suggesting intact subjective and neurophysiological response to rewarding stimuli in-the-moment. Despite a presumably intact capacity to experience pleasure, people with schizophrenia still engage in fewer reward-seeking behaviors. This discrepancy has been explained as a dissociation between “liking” and “wanting,” with dopaminergic and prefrontal influences on incentive salience leading hedonic responses to not effectively translate into motivated behavior. In the current review, the literature on a key aspect of the wanting deficit is reviewed, anticipatory pleasure.

Recent Findings

Results provide consistent evidence for impairment in some aspects of anticipatory pleasure (e.g., prospection, associative learning between reward predictive cues and outcomes) and inconsistent evidence for others (e.g., anticipatory affect and affective forecasting).

Summary

Mechanisms underlying anticipatory pleasure abnormalities in schizophrenia are discussed, and a new model of anticipatory pleasure deficits is proposed. Findings suggest that anticipatory pleasure may be a critical component of impairments in wanting that impact motivated behavior in schizophrenia.

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Frost, K.H., Strauss, G.P. A Review of Anticipatory Pleasure in Schizophrenia. Curr Behav Neurosci Rep 3, 232–247 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40473-016-0082-5

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