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	Neophobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In psychology, neophobia is defined as the persistent and abnormal fear of anything new.
		Robert Anton Wilson theorized, in his book Prometheus Rising, that neophobia is instinctual in people after they become parents and begin to raise children.
		Wilson's views on neophobia are mostly negative, believing that it is the reason human culture and ideas do not advance as quickly as our technology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neophobia (244 words)

	Fear and Loathing - A new study shows that being risk-averse may shorten your life. By Christine Kenneally (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In fact, this kind of excess stress is so unhealthy that rats with neophobia were found to be 60 percent more likely to die at any point during their lives than their more adventurous counterparts.
		The scared rats were as healthy as their curious siblings during their reproductive years, but, because of the cumulative effects of the extra stress they experienced, they died sooner overall, and before they died, they aged more quickly.
		Neophobia shows up in human infants as early as 14 months of age, and like the rats, fearful children have a faster and stronger hormonal response than children who are not afraid of new situations.
	slate.msn.com /id/2093766 (1125 words)

	Andart: The Price of Neophobia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Neophobia is believed to be linked to increase of activity in the amygdala and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis: a release of glucocorticoids (the long-term stress hormones cortisol and corticosterone).
		Because the neophobia discussed here appears to develop at a very early age and be a persistent personality factor.
		In the rats it was found that testing young rats for neophobia could be used to predict their neophobia and hormone levels as adults; neophilia and neophobia appears to be rather stable traits that do not change.
	www.aleph.se /andart/archives/2004/01/the_price_of_neophobia.html (788 words)

	Human Food Rejections: Section 1
		Neophobia may even define what is food and what is not food.
		Food neophobia and pickiness can be expected to be related to similar patterns of responses to external stimuli, such as sensation-seeking.
		If food neophobia were not to be related to anxiety and sensation seeking in human studies, we would have to re-consider what food neophobia in non-humans actually measures.
	www.bondegezou.demon.co.uk /phd/Section1.htm (8520 words)

	University of Miami School of Medicine - Glossary - Neophobia
		Neophobia: Fear of anything new, of innovation, an irrational fear of new situations, places, or things.
		In animal behavior, neophobia refers to the tendency of an animal to avoid or retreat from an unfamiliar object or situation.
		Neophobia is not a neologism (a new word); it's been around a while.
	www.med.miami.edu /glossary/art.asp?articlekey=11714 (152 words)

	Mothers' and daughters' food neophobia relates to fruit and vegetable intake
		Neophobia is also related to diets that have less variety.
		To examine the relationship between neophobia and fruit and vegetable (FandV) consumption in families, we used data collected from 190 seven-year-old girls and their mothers.
		These findings suggest that mothers' neophobia impacts the development of their daughters' diet and willingness to try new foods.
	apha.confex.com /apha/129am/techprogram/paper_30101.htm (399 words)

	Three key responses behind food neophobia, the rejection of new foods in both adults and children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Dr Martins' current research project is examining food neophobia in adults in a bid to develop techniques to reduce it.
		Her research is using university student volunteers to identify and evaluate responses to a range of familiar and less familiar foods prepared in her kitchen-laboratory.
		Disgust poses a major problem in reducing food neophobia: while it is usually possible to persuade adults and even children to try food they initially reject on the basis of distaste or danger, it is very difficult to find successful strategies to overcome disgust, Dr Martins said.
	www.news-medical.net /?id=4501 (803 words)

	Neophobia
		Neophobia by the Lesser-Antillean Bullfinch, a foraging generalist, and the Bananaquit, a nectar specialist : An article from: The Wilson Bulletin
		Experiments on 'neophobia' in wild and laboratory rats
		Single-trial taste aversion learning to water: A reassessment of familiarity, neophobia, and measurement strategies
	www.veryhappening.com /things/neophobia (43 words)

	iBelieve Main Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		By definition, this simply means: "a tendency to dislike anything new; fear of novelty; the fear of new things and new experiences; an abnormal and persistent fear of almost anything new." Changing from the old and comfortable to the new and uncertain can be a life altering experience.
		Can neophobia actually be a factor in the decrease in the quality and quantity of one's physical existence, or a factor affecting the effectiveness of a group of people?
		Obviously, the ideal is a balance between the two -- a healthy caution for that which is new, a willingness to explore the matter, and a willingness to change or embrace the new if such is called for.
	www.ibelieve.com /content.asp?CID=18121 (1141 words)

	Trying New Foods - Mental Health Disorders on MedicineNet.com
		Now there's a name for their cuisine-challenged condition: food neophobia, or anxiety over trying new foods.
		Scientists found no differences in the two groups' physical thresholds for intensity of smell and taste, so Frank contends that neophobia is a matter of attitude, not chemistry.
		Neophobia is seen in many young animals learning to distinguish between edible and inedible substances.
	www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=35873 (372 words)

	Nutrition Research Newsletter: Determinants of vegetable intake among school-aged girls - Pediatric Nutrition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A recent study investigated whether food neophobia and pickiness are related to vegetable consumption in 7-year-old girls and assessed if there were distinct predictors for food neophobia and pickiness.
		Food neophobia is an unwillingness to eat novel foods, whereas pickiness is an unwillingness to eat many familiar foods.
		Girls who were determined to have both food neophobia and pickiness were found to consume fewer vegetables (1.1 [+ or -] 0.1) than girls with neither neophobia nor pickiness (1.6 [+ or -] 0.1).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0887/is_7_22/ai_106474550 (568 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Fear of new things shortens life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		So she decided to study the health effects of neophobia - the fear of new things - in rats, a more easily managed animal.
		Living longer is a good thing, but in dangerous environments - say, full of predators or poisonous plants - the rat that runs away from the unknown may live to pass on its genes another day.
		One complication is that children are encouraged to overcome their fears, which may change their response to new things and people.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn4458 (620 words)

	Age-related impairment in complex maze learning in rats: relationship to neophobia and cholinergic antagonism. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Prior to training, a portion of each age group received a gustatory neophobia test (percent consumption of a novel sucrose solution) to assess involvement of norepinephrine systems implicated in age-related impairments of rats in other memory tasks.
		Consistent with past reports, aged rats were more neophobic (i.e., consumed less sucrose) than were young rats, but the degree of neophobia was not significantly correlated with maze error performance in either age group.
		Also consistent with previous studies, aged rats were significantly impaired, compared to young counterparts, in all maze performance measures including errors, alternation errors, runtime, and shock frequency and duration.
	www.arclab.org /medlineupdates/abstract_2657464.html (295 words)

	Reduced cortical noradrenergic neurotransmission is associated with increased neophobia and impaired spatial memory in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Reduced cortical noradrenergic neurotransmission is associated with increased neophobia and impaired spatial memory in aged rats.
		Impaired acquisition and retention of the water maze task and gustatory neophobia in aged rats was primarily associated with decreased NE activity in cingulate cortex (CC) as indicated by a significant reduction in the MHPG/NE ratio coupled with increased NE content.
		The results suggest that an aging-related reduction in cortical NE neurotransmission is associated with the expression of increased neophobia and deficits in spatial learning and memory performance occurring with advanced age in rats.
	www.arclab.org /medlineupdates/abstract_14749139.html (236 words)

	NEOPHOBIA - www.miamusica.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		...benefits in turn were strongly explained by more general attitudes held by the consumers, notably food neophobia, attitude towards technology, attitude towards nature...
		...of vocalisations in Red-bellied lemur (Eulemur rubriventer 2 19-9-2000 Elsa Addessi* Social influences on neophobia in Cebus apella 3 19-9-2000 Valentina Truppa* Fattori che...
		...that each hostname has to be part of a higher-level domain; for example, if I wanted to name my machine neophobia, I`d either have to make the higher-level domain...
	www.miamusica.it /neophobia.html (235 words)

	Food Neophobia in Childhood Affects Dietary Variety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The objective of this study was to determine whether children with food neophobia (unwillingness to try new foods) have more restrictive diets than children without neophobia.
		In the study, 70 children were classified into three groups based on scores obtained on the Food Neophobia Scale: neophobic group, neophilic group, and the average group.
		The Healthy Eating Index showed that children with neophobia had a higher intake of saturated fat and less food variety than children without neophobia.
	www.dieteticintern.com /neophobia.htm (229 words)

	Nutrition Research Newsletter: Food Neophobia In Childhood - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A characteristic of some children's eating behavior that may contribute to dietary repetition is food neophobia, or an unwillingness to try new foods.
		Therefore, the current study was designed to investigate whether children with food neophobia have more restrictive diets, less dietary variety, and lower nutrient intakes compared to children without neophobia.
		The HEI index showed that children with neophobia had a higher intake of saturated fat and less food variety than children without food neophobia.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0887/is_1_20/ai_69697653 (569 words)

	Health News: Lifeclinic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Researchers have found rats with neophobia, or fear of novelty, tend to die earlier than rodents who embraced life to its fullest.
		The first study looked at adrenal activity in rodents with neophobia or with neophilia (those who weren't afraid of novelty).
		"We showed that we could detect this trait of neophobia before they were even weaned, and then that predicted how their adrenals reacted to being in a challenging situation like this in young adulthood and later on in middle adulthood," McClintock says.
	lifeclinic.com /healthnews/article_view.asp?story=516419&printpage=true (787 words)

	Perirhinal Cortex Muscarinic Receptor Blockade Impairs Taste Recognition Memory Formation -- Gutiérrez et al. 11 ...
		Buresova, O. and Bures, J. Post-ingestion interference with brain function prevents attenuation of neophobia in rats.
		Burwell, R.D. Borders and cytoarchitecture of the perirhinal and postrhinal cortices in the rat.
		Fitzgerald, R.E. and Burton, M.J. Neophobia and conditioned taste aversion deficits in the rat produced by undercutting temporal cortex.
	www.learnmem.org /cgi/content/full/11/1/95 (5163 words)

	Inborn and Acquired Aspects of Offense and Defense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		As far as I know, neophobia has never been studied in order to determine the nature of the memory mechanisms involved, although the memory processes must be quite complex and interesting.
		There is some evidence that the basolateral amygdala may be involved in the mechanism of neophobia.
		Galef [25] made this suggestion in 1970, and it fits with data from Miczek et al.[41] that the basolateral amygdala facilitates defense, but is not involved with olfactory motivating stimuli.
	www.culture-of-peace.info /memory/page4.html (210 words)

	MyDearDiary.com - loner - Neophobia
		But I don't try to stay away from it completely, since something great or wonderful might come out of it.
		I guess what I'm trying to say is that I might be neophobia - fear of anything new.
		I do stay completely away from some new things, like smoking and drinking, and drugs, and being around someone who I think could cause some harm or could get in some trouble.
	loner.mydeardiary.com /entry.html?de_key=458401 (326 words)

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		Data are consistent with the hypothesis, indicating that 1) naive Eastern Kingbirds express neophobia in response to novel feeding opportunities; 2) neophobic responses are significantly alleviated by the presence of an experienced bird but not another naive bird; and 3) kingbirds exhibit a limited ability to habituate to a general class of novel feeding opportunities.
		The social mitigation of neophobia in naive birds by experienced birds suggests that joining conspecific flocks may be an important strategy for coping with the incumbent novelty of migration.
		This result suggests that the post-reproductive life span does not vary directly with the duration of parental care or the age at sexual maturity of offspring, and is not explained by the presence of potential recipients of inclusive fitness benefits.
	www.animalbehavior.org /ABS/Program/Past/Morehouse_00/absMZ.html (16395 words)

	CAINOPHOBIA: Treatment and Hope
		Imagine What Your Life Would Be Like Without Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainophobia, Kainolophobia, Neophobia, Fear of Newness, and Fear of Novelty
		And it is particularly cruel as cainophobia can be eliminated with the right methods and just 24 hours of commitment by the phobic individual.
		Known by a number of names - Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainophobia, Kainolophobia, Neophobia, Fear of Newness, and Fear of Novelty being the most common - the problem often significantly impacts the quality of life.
	www.changethatsrightnow.com /problem_detail.asp?SDID=349:1429 (1389 words)

	kainolophobia Stop Anxiety and Fear
		New, anything or novel Kainophobia, Kainolophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, or Neophobia.
		Other popular names are - Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainophobia, Kainolophobia, Neophobia, Fear of Newness, and Fear of Novelty.
		New, anything or novel Kainophobia, Kainolophobia or Neophobia.
	www.stop-fear.com /Kainolophobia (441 words)

	Fear of novelty in infant rats predicts adult corticosterone dynamics and an early death -- Cavigelli and McClintock ...
		as neophobia across species and use "neophilia" to refer to
		To study long-term consequences of neophobia, and given the
		Study 2: Lifespan Study of Neophobia and Neophilia
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/100/26/16131 (5338 words)

	Information Headquarters: List of phobias
		Bogyphobia - Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
		Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia, Neophobia - Fear of newness, novelty.
		Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places.
	www.informationheadquarters.com /List_of_phobias.shtml (1451 words)

	NOVELTY FEAR: Treatment and Hope
		Our board-certified team specializes in helping individuals overcome fears, phobias & anxiety of all kinds, and is particularly focused on problems such as Novelty Fear.
		And it is particularly cruel as novelty fear can be eliminated with the right methods and just 24 hours of commitment by the phobic individual.
		The bottom line: Novelty Fear can always be overcome.
	www.changethatsrightnow.com /problem_detail.asp?SDID=3978:1429 (1422 words)

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