Brain scans reveal human pheromones
By John Travis
More and more scientists believe that people, like insects and other animals, give
off pheromones. Such scents covertly influence the behavior and physiology of
other members of a species, particularly of the opposite sex (SN: 3/14/98, p.
164: https://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/3_14_98/fob1.htm). A research team reports in the Aug. 30 Neuron that the brains of men and
women respond differently to two putative pheromones, compounds related to the
hormones testosterone and estrogen.
When smelled, an estrogenlike compound triggers blood flow to the hypothalamus in