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Article: AND scent has gender-dependent effects on mood and autonomic function.
- Article from:
- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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2004 NOV 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The scent of a sex steroid has gender- and dose-dependent effects on mood and autonomic arousal.
In a recent study from the United States, the "effects of sniffing different concentrations of the human sex steroid-derived compound 4,16-androstadien-3-one (AND) on autonomic nervous system function and mood were measured in 60 subjects."
"The effects were sex-specific and concentration-dependent," M. Bensafi and coauthors at the University of California-Berkeley found.
"Only high concentrations of AND (0.00625 M) increased positive mood (p
"These findings further implicate AND in chemical communication ...