PHÉROMONES & SCIENCE

Always follow your nose: The functional significance of social chemosignals in human reproduction and survival

Pheromones in sex and reproduction: Do they have a role in humans?

Pheromones and their role as aphrodisiacs: A review

Pheromone effects on the human hypothalamus in relation to sexual orientation and gender

Pheromones in male perspiration reduce women's tension, alter hormone response.

Battle of odors: significance of pheromones for human reproduction.

Smelling of odorous sex hormone-like compounds causes sex-differentiated hypothalamic activations in humans.

Blind smell: brain activation induced by an undetected air-borne chemical.

Pheromones and their role as aphrodisiacs: A review

Human pheromones and sexual attraction

Are mammal olfactory signals hiding right under our noses?

Effects of putative male pheromones on female ratings of male attractiveness

MHC-correlated odour preferences in humans

Rapid mood change and human odors

Human olfactory communication of emotion

Psychological state and mood effects of steroidal chemosignals in women and men

Pheromones and Mammalian Behavior

Study Shows Some Male Pheromones Can Increase Cooperativeness

Odorous Sex Hormone Compounds Affect the Hypothalamus

L'ORGANE VOMIRONASALE - OVN

Jacobson's Organ and the Sixth Sense.

The functionality of the human vomeronasal organ (VNO): evidence for steroid receptors.

The vomeronasal organ.

ANDROSTADIÉNONE

Study on androstadienone’s effect when judging attractiveness of men.

Women affected by androstadienone when administered by men, but not other women

Study on how androstadienone affects mood in both men and women

Smelling androstadienone alters cortisol levels in women

Androstadienone – psychological and emotional processing changes on women

Androstadienone influences women’s perception of happiness and anger on same-sex faces: Preliminary findings

Androstadienone’s influence on the perception of facial and vocal attractiveness is not sex specific

Effects of androstadienone on dominance perception in males with low and high social anxiety

Androstadienone resulted in a rightward shift of women's preference for sexually dimorphic male faces across the continuum of femininity-masculinity

The effects of the steroid androstadienone and pleasant odorants on the mood and pain perception of men and women

Androstadienone, a putative chemosignal of dominance, increases gaze avoidance among men with high social anxiety

Putative human pheromone androstadienone attunes the mind specifically to emotional information

Evidence that androstadienone, a putative human chemosignal, modulates women’s attributions of men’s attractiveness

The influence of androstadienone during psychosocial stress is modulated by gender, trait anxiety and subjective stress: An fMRI study

The human body odor compound androstadienone increases neural conflict coupled to higher behavioral costs during an emotional Stroop task

Human chemosignals modulate emotional perception of biological motion in a sex-specific manner

Chemosignal Androstadienone Makes Women More Generous

Psychological state and mood effects of steroidal chemosignals in women and men

Pheromones and Their Effect on Women’s Mood and Sexuality

COPULINS

Effect of Copulins on Rating of Female Attractiveness, Mate-Guarding, and Self-Perceived Sexual Desirability

Volatile fatty acids, “copulins”, in human vaginal secretions

Men respond to the scent of a woman

Copulins block a man’s ability to judge a woman’s attractiveness by the way she looks

ANDROSTÉNONE

Scent of androstenone is more attractive to more sexually experienced women

Ability to smell androstenone is genetically determined

Impact of odors (androstenone) on interpersonal relationships

Sex Differences in Response to the Odor of Alpha Androstenone

Sex-hormone dependent perception of androstenone suggests its involvement in communicating competition and aggression

Changes in sensitivity to the odor of androstenone during adolescence

Interpersonal defensiveness and diminished perceptual acuity for the odor of a putative pheromone: androstenone

Sensitivity to androstenone in female subjects is associated with an altered brain response to male body odor

PRÉGNÉNOLONE

Pregnenolone for cognition and mood in dual diagnosis patients

Pregnenolone

ANDROSTANONE

An investigation into the effect of androstanone on the emission of dominant responsesSkin conductance and subjective assessments associated with the odour of 5-alpha-androstan-3-one

(ALPHA) ANDROSTERONE

Correlation between androgens and sexual desire in women

Androsterone “a neurosteroid that acts as a positive allosteric modulator of GABAA”

EPI-ANDROSTÉRONE

Neurosteroid, epi-androsterone binds to GABA receptors

Epiandrosterone is a metabolite of the most abundant adrenal androgenic steroid dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in young adult humans

Epiandrosterone sulfate prolongs the detectability of testosterone

ANDROSTÉNOL

Androstenol exhibits positive modulatory activity on GABA-A receptors

Positive relationship between menstrual synchrony and ability to smell 5alpha-androst-16-en-3alpha-ol.

The Influence Of Androstenol On Mood Throughout Menstrual Cycle

Olfaction In Humans With Reference To Odorous 16-androstenes

Androstenol, a putative human pheromone, affects human (Homo sapiens) male choice performance

Effects of androstenol on human sexual arousal

Judgements of attractiveness of the opposite sex and nostril differences in self-rated mood: The effects of androstenol

DHEA

5-Dehydroepiandrosterone is the most abundant circulating steroid hormone in humans

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) and emotional processing — A behavioral and electrophysiological approach

DHEA is a “parent hormone” produced by the adrenal glands

The role of DHEA in relation to problem solving and academic performance

DHEA and DHEA-S response to acute psychosocial stress in healthy men and women

DHEAS

Harvard study correlates DHEAS levels on social rejection and creativity

Higher DHEAS levels correlate with successful abstinence from cocaine use in addicts

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) and emotional processing — A behavioral and electrophysiological approach

DHEA and DHEA-S response to acute psychosocial stress in healthy men and women

ESTRATÉTRAENOL

Hypothalamus activation when smelling odorous steroids sstratetraenol and androstadienone.

Human chemosignals modulate emotional perception of biological motion in a sex-specific manner

Estratetraenol and Androstadienone found to exhibit gender-specific effects on primates

Psychological state and mood effects of steroidal chemosignals in women and men

Estratetraenol increases preference for large sexual reward but not impulsivity among heterosexual males