Loss of Pleasure Linked to Early-Onset Dementia Not Alzheimerâs, New Study Finds
April 15, 2021
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“Much of human experience is motivated by the drive to experience pleasure but we often take this capacity for granted,â says Muireann Irish, PhD, professor at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre and School of Psychology.
The ability to feel pleasure depends on the activity of hedonic hotspots in the brain. Scientists at the University of Sydney, led by Irish, show loss of the ability of experience pleasure is unique to early-onset dementia, also known as frontotemporal dementia (FTD), but not Alzheimer’s disease. This is the first study the researchers claim, that links FTD to the loss of the ability to experience pleasureâclinically called anhedonia.
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