title: Vulnerability to depression: a model centered on anhedonia.
abstract: The aim of the present study is to present a model of depressive vulnerability centered on anhedonia. After a review of the literature, we suggest a specific symptomatic profile associating anhedonia, introversion, low sensation-seeking, autonomy, dysfunctional attitudes, high displeasure capacity, obsessive-compulsive features, passitivity and pessimism. This symptomatic profile could constitute a mild chronic mood disorder which, following stress, might decompensate into unipolar endogenomorphic depression. Several methods of research are suggested to test the validity of our model.
authors.affiliation: Service Hospitalo-Universitaire de Psychiatrie, Hopital Pinel, Amiens, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Loas
mesh_terms: D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000235:genetics; D014427:Twins / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology