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The same neural mechanisms are at work in worms and humans

a molecule similar to GnRH is essential to nutrient chemical-dependent and pheromone-controlled reproduction in all species, including C. elegans.

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Pheromonemotionally speaking

Patisaul et al (2012) makes it clearer the “The role of oxytocin, for example, must be explained in the context of how pheromones, food odors, and endocrine disruptors epigenetically effect sociosexual behavior.”

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Oxytocin improves social behaviors in a girl with an autistic disorder

I will not dismiss the potential importance of oxytocin to effective treatment despite the fact that the mechanisms of its effectiveness remain unknown.

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Oxytocin for everything?

Suddenly, we then have the automagical affects of oxytocin on behavior with no need for social neuroscience.

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Product comparisons and human pheromone sciences

Product comparison of exposure to affect time: Scent of Eros: 15 minutes; Athena product: 8 weeks; Oxytocin product: no data

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Conditioning of the human pair bond by human pheromones

a form of communication exists between the two partners whereby the female informs the male that she has ovulated and he responds, like the dominant rhesus monkey, with an increase in his testosterone level facilitating his entire sexual response cycle.

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Smell, hormones, and bonding

Tobin, Hashimoto et al., (2010) states with unusual clarity: “We are not suggesting that social recognition in humans depends on olfactory signals… and in humans…

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