ANHEDONIA IN ENDOGENOMORPHIC DEPRESSION

Authors
Citation
G. Loas et P. Boyer, ANHEDONIA IN ENDOGENOMORPHIC DEPRESSION, Psychiatry research, 60(1), 1996, pp. 57-65
Citations number
34
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry
Journal title
ISSN journal
01651781
Volume
60
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
57 - 65
Database
ISI
SICI code
0165-1781(1996)60:1<57:AIED>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
In 1974 Klein suggested that anhedonia is the main symptom of endogeno morphic depression. In an attempt to test Klein's hypothesis, we used the Endogenomorphic subscale of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depressi on (HRSD) to dichotomize 97 patients with unipolar major depression in to endogenomorphic and nonendogenomorphic subgroups. Anhedonia was rat ed using the Physical Anhedonia Scale and the Fawcett-Clark Pleasure C apacity Scale-Physical Pleasure. The endogenomorphic patients were sig nificantly more anhedonic than the nonendogenomorphic patients, even w hen the effect of depressive severity was controlled.