MOTIVATION AND HEDONIC
CAPACITY IN MOOD DISORDERS
AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
Motivation is an important
concept in terms of everyday
functioning. Many everyday acts are
likely performed because of their
intrinsically reinforcing
consequences. Depression is known
to reduce hedonic capacity and may
reduce the motivation to perform
otherwise reinforcing activities
because of interference with either
the pleasure experienced from them
(consummatory anhedonia) or the
anticipated pleasure that motivates