Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Posted: July 2, 2007 9:01 AM MDT
Summary:
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports that pheromones could enable the growth of new brain cells:
"Pheromone signals from dominant males spark new brain cells in their female partners and could help repair injured brains, suggests a new study by a University of Calgary neuroscientist. Sam Weiss's findings, in the July issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, provide evidence that pheromones — subtle chemical signatures that influence mating behaviour — can control stem cells in the brain."
