App-based training for lack of pleasure
Part of Brain & nervous system, Mental health clinical trials.
This trial tests if an app-based training program can help people who have trouble feeling pleasure from daily activities (anhedonia). It combines mood check-ins and simple, repeated exercises to retrain the brain's reward system.
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Who can take part
- You must speak German fluently.
- You must own a smartphone and be willing to use it daily for app sessions and questions.
- You must have a significant loss of interest or pleasure in things you used to enjoy (clinically elevated anhedonia).
- You must also have moderate or higher depression, anxiety, or stress symptoms.
- You cannot be currently taking any psychiatric medication.
- You cannot be in therapy or planning to start therapy during the study, and you must not have a history of suicide attempts, bipolar disorder, or psychosis.
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