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Novelty-Seeking Behavior

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Novelty-Seeking Behaviour
A behavioural pattern typical of persons who engage in high-risk and extreme sports or who abuse drugs
novelty-seeking behavior
Psychology A behavioral pattern which may be typical of persons who engage in high-risk and extreme sports or who abuse drugs. See Extreme sports, High-sensation seeking trait.
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HONOLULU -- People who engage in novelty-seeking behavior or activities that involve the integration of ideas appear to have a decreased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, Thomas Fritsch, Ph.
Novelty seeking tied to lower Alzheimer's risk. (Depends on APO E ... by Finn, Robert / Clinical Psychiatry News
They looked first at a group of 193 men who were deemed ``normal'' by psychiatric evaluation, and whose degree of novelty-seeking behavior had been determined through a personality questionnaire, as it had been in the previous studies.
`NOVELTY-SEEKING GENE' CAN'T BE REPRODUCED by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
A version of the D4 dopamine receptor gene, or D4DR, cited as a key factor in producing novelty-seeking behavior (SN: 1/6/96, p.
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