Source: LiveScience
Posted: July 2, 2007 10:45 a.m. PT
Summary:
Animals often attract the opposite sex using chemicals in their scents known as pheromones. The areas of the brain that scientists think pheromones target are also where new cells most often grow in the adult brain — the olfactory bulb, which helps perceive odors, and the hippocampus, which helps store memories. Now researchers have discovered pheromones from dominant male mice stimulated the production of new neurons in female brains.
