<prompt> A 25-year-old woman complains of intense depressed mood for 6 months with an inability to enjoy previously pleasurable activities. This symptom is known asAnhedoniaAvolitionApathyAmotivation  <response>: In schizophrenia, the disorders of affect include apathy, emotional blunting, emotional shallowness, anhedonia inability to experience pleasure and inappropriate emotional response emotional response inappropriate to thought. negative symptoms of schizophrenia include affective flattening or blunting, attentional impairment, avolition-apathy lack of initiative associated with psychomotor slowing, anhedonia, asociality social withdrawal, and alogia lack of speech output. Ref: A sho textbook of psychiatry, Niraj Ahuja, 7th edition, pg no.56 Anhedonia: Loss of interest in and withdrawal from all regular and pleasurable activities. Often associated with depression. 