Apathy

…impairments to motivation, such as apathy and fatigue, across many neurological and psychiatric conditions. However, the vast majority of neuroscience research has focused on understanding the benefits for acting, the rewards, and not on the effort required. As a result, the computational and neural mechanisms un

…shown to have higher levels of apathy and anhedonia than non-users. In this survey study, we measured apathy and anhedonia, before and after lockdown measures were implemented, in n = 256 adult and n = 200 adolescent cannabis users and n = 170 adult and n = 172 adolescent controls. Scores on the Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES) and Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS) were investigated

…behavior is the hallmark of apathy, and present in the psychotic disorder. The search for its underlying mechanisms has resulted in findings of profound impairments in learning from rewards and the associated blunted activation in key reward areas of the brain of patients with psychosis. An emerging research field has been relying on digital phenotyping tools and ecological momen