Examining working and episodic memory in young adults with anhedonia.

ABSTRACT: Depression is associated with impairments in memory processes. Evidence suggests that poorer recognition of positive information and quicker disengagement with positive information from working memory in depressed versus nondepressed individuals. The working memory deficits are speculated to be downstream effects of a taxed working memory due to rumination processes that impair reward learning leading to anhedonia symptoms. Downstream effects are also hypothesized for episodic memory with impairments particularly for positive information due to dopamine dysregulation from anhedonia affecting memory formation processes. To examine the association of memory impairments in individuals with mild-to-severe anhedonia and depressive symptoms, 108 young adults completed a working memory task where

SUBMITTER: Uribe S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12615527 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature