Researchers Claim Pheromones Trigger Brain Cell Growth 113
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reporting 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 behavior -- can control stem cells in the brain."
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Fun.
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My name is Buck and I like to ... (Score:1)
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I'm posting from a Wii btw.
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No kidding. That bitch in accounting who wears tons of perfume seems to think she's the smartest woman alive.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_contraction#E
So you may not be far from the truth.
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New brain cells will accelerate learning and cement patterns in place. If people under the influence learn dumb patterns they will find it harder to break out of those patterns later.
This is probably one of the major reasons women in abusive relationships can't seem to break away from their abusers. The patterns of behavior become ingrained through this process.
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Dominate males don't abuse women... (Score:4, Interesting)
One thing to remember is that men who abuse women are almost always NOT dominate / alpha males. My wife worked as a social worker for many years and I've had first hand experience with abusive guys. They abuse women because that allows them to have at least one person beneath them and work out their aggression at being such inferior guys themselves. That's also why most abusers commit suicide after they break and kill their ex's. They're too scared to go to prison.
Think back to Robert Heinlein - "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you"
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Males who are not alpha males are more afraid. Anger is most often based on fear.
However I think there are alpha males who are a problem because it is a bell curve-
On one end you have the weaklings that need to abuse someone to feel strong and cover their feelings of inadequacy. I've known some who are constantly afraid when they open up. On the other end you have the guys who are almost insane with testosterone. They'll fight anyone and they have trouble with
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Actuallly this is quite insightful except for one thing:
She doesn't actually cop to the fact that the "alpha of state", for which she works, is a wimp who is so chickenshit that "he" has to resort to black and Hispanic prison gangs to meet out "his" worst punishments on spouse-abusing white guys, and that "he" can't actually mate with the women who look to "him" for protection.
From Huma [hrw.org]
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What about winners of the obfusicated Perl contests?....nevermind
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You're so gonna get a wedgie after school.
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Unfortunately, you're not going to find (Score:3, Funny)
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In our society, where the use of force is frowned upon, muscle only brings you so far. Cash can help you ruin other people but what does it help you if the other guy looks l
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No joke.
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There's an interesting social/cultural question here though: it's only a modern fashion that human scents are considered disgusting. In fact, research seems to suggest that, despite the fashion, the opposite is actually true.
So: if natural scents are good for us, then rejecting things that are good for us is potentially an attitude problem or even mental illness. At the very least, it makes me wonder how society is changing as a result, if people are rejecting so
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When you get right down to it, 'male' is not the same as 'female', at least in a biological sense. So of course you should expect that male-male, male-female, and female-female relationships can be pretty different from each other.
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A need for validation.
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A plumber designing sex toys? Seems reasonable to me. Remember "Brave new world"? They had no sexy women, they had pneumatic woman.
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I can see the courtroom scene now.. (Score:1)
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Since when does dominance have anything to do with beating your wife? Statements like yours aren't funny, they're disgusting.
Human Alpha Males? (Score:3, Insightful)
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I think people are reading too much into the word "dominant".
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_male/ [wikipedia.org]
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Are you kidding? Very senior managers are exactly analogous to the silverback gorillas, the pack alpha males. Middle managers are more like their bitches to be honest than alpha males, though they'll bare their fangs at subordinates a bit if they can get away with it. Mind you as you go
So the truth is finally revealed... (Score:5, Funny)
I sense a disturbance in the force! It's as if a million feminists shouted out at once and were suddenly silenced, if not utterly confused!
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So The Cure For Alzheimer's Is... (Score:4, Funny)
Who woulda thunk it?
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http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v10/n7/index.h tml [nature.com]
No papers by Sam Weiss or anything whose name sounds like the paper discussed. Or am I missing something?
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This is generally the preferred way, unless your decision making formula is overly complex, then the code is bad just because of that :-)
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Mandatory insensitive clod post (Score:1)
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So...What about us sensitive clods, you insensitive clod!
Serious question... (Score:2)
And if you dont think it is, check out my MySpace page.... but what about dominant males and their male partners? I wonder if anyone has measured that? Is it something to do with the way the pheremones act only on a female partner? Any partner (male or female), or any person who has had sufficient exposure?
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thanks
Will you come over and help me? Thanks.
Sorry, no, I am single. No girlfriend, no boyfriend... not even a pet.
Maybe I waste too much time on /.?
:-)
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Just ignore it like the rest of us!
Guys: For the sake of women's brains . . . (Score:4, Funny)
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OK. Tell me who right now is at work, and who is home napping?
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About pheromones (Score:4, Interesting)
Here are the basic types
N = Androstenone R = Androsterone L = Androstenol
D = Androstadienone B = Beta-androstenol C = Copulins
Androstenone is lust/alpha. I've been told by women this "smells like man".
Androsterone is warm/father/trust type. Promotes conversation in both sexes.
Copulins have been shown to raise testosterone levels in about 20 minutes in healthy males (something females would use normally).
These work. In extremely tiny quantities. On about 40% of females in my experience and dramatically for about 15%. They are excellent for males with naturally low alpha pheromones including aging males (like me). If you overdose you will get into fights in bars, get headaches, and scare away females- you have been warned.
The rest (and oxytocin (sp?)) I haven't had luck with. They will not overcome yellow dirty teeth, bad B/O, acting like a wimp, hideous fashion sense. They give an edge and multiply positive emotions. They do not fix or overcome massive negative emotions. So dress well, have good hygiene, be cocky/funny, and add these in and you will have better luck. For the ladies, adding copulins in makes males more aggressive (if you like that).
They are not cheap. They are not expensive. $29 to $79 for about 6 months supply.
I use love-scent but there are other sites. I was attracted to love-scent because it has a long deep history and they had a research bias in their forums.
We are not dogs or insects. The brain matters. Both of you getting drunk will probably have a stronger effect than mones.
So when we meet dumb people .. (Score:2)
Corollary: if the world had more dominant males to waft about their pheromones, the world would be a smarter place.
Puts one in the eye for feminism, though.
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I think so.....
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I've been waiting for something like this! (Score:2)
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Granted, humans and mice share a lot of DNA. But rodents and primates are sufficiently distant genetically that few if any results in one family can be applied directly to the other. In particular, a lot of human adaptations happened by weakening builtin, instinctive behavior, and replacing it with learned behavior.
Maybe this result will carry over to humans, maybe not. Or, most likely, there will be something similar in humans, but the trigger will be visual or language bas
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http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/staff/jacob/teaching/se
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