ReviewVitamins and hormones2010
Functional neuronal processing of human body odors.
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- A comparative clinical study of different hair removal procedures and their impact on axillary odor reduction in men.Journal of cosmetic dermatology · 2016Trial
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- Smelling the romantic partner's natural body odor increases psychological and autonomic but not cortisol stress responses.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Did Down-Regulated Instincts Enable Human Gene-Culture Coevolution?Evolutionary anthropology · 2025Review
- Prejudice, Proxemic Space, and Social Odor: The Representation of the 'Outsider' Through an Evolutionary Metaverse Psychology Perspective.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Characterization of odor markers associated with aging in old ICR mice.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Identifying the human olfactory and chemosignaling neural networks using event related fMRI and graph theory.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The interactive role of odor associations in friendship preferences.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Characterizing Olfactory Brain Responses in Young Infants.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Past, Present, and Future of Human Chemical Communication Research.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Review
- The relationship between social odour awareness and emotional contagion susceptibility in females.Perception · 2024Article
- Male Body Odor Affects Emotional State, LH, and Cortisol Secretion in Women of Different Age Groups.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- How priming with body odors affects decision speeds in consumer behavior.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Epidemiological analysis of axillary apocrine bromhidrosis in China: a survey from Chinese higher education students.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
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- From musk to body odor: Decoding olfaction through genetic variation.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- Evaluation of Deodorizing Effects ofEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Article
- The social odor scale: Development and initial validation of a new scale for the assessment of social odor awareness.PloS one · 2021Article
- The importance of the olfactory system in human well-being, through nutrition and social behavior.Cell and tissue research · 2021Review
- The Function of Fear Chemosignals: Preparing for Danger.Chemical senses · 2021Article
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Abstract
Body odors carry informational cues of great importance for individuals across a wide range of species, and signals hidden within the body odor cocktail are known to regulate several key behaviors in animals. For a long time, the notion that humans may be among these species has been dismissed. We now know, however, that each human has a unique odor signature that carries information related to his or her genetic makeup, as well as information about personal environmental variables, such as diet and hygiene. Although a substantial number of studies have investigated the behavioral effects of body odors, only a handful have studied central processing. Recent studies have, however, demonstrated that the human brain responds to fear signals hidden within the body odor cocktail, is able to extract kin specific signals, and processes body odors differently than other perceptually similar odors. In this chapter, we provide an overview of the current knowledge of how the human brain processes body odors and the potential importance these signals have for us in everyday life.
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