Olfactory-hormonal signals for human behavior: can you smell ovulation and pregnancy?
- Conditions
- Investigating the influence of body odor on attractiveness evaluation, pregnancy assessment, and brain activation
- Registration Number
- DRKS00029175
- Lead Sponsor
- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik RWTH Uniklinik Aachen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 150
Healthy male subjects (n = 50), and female ovulating (n = 50) and menstruating subjects (n = 50), age 20 - 35 years, heterosexual orientation, single, right-handed.
Not exclusively heterosexual orientation; not single; frequent nosebleeds or nosebleeds experienced within the last 3 days; chronic nasal disease; upper respiratory tract infections; chronic rhinitis; pulmonary disease (e.g., asthma, other lung diseases); anosmia; smoking; diseases involving the CNS (e.g. (e.g., traumatic brain injury); history of psychiatric disease (SCID light for diagnosis); drug abuse; medication use; head injury; e.g., head, cardiac, vascular surgery; metabolic disease (e.g., diabetes mellitus, pheochromocytoma, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism); other significant diseases (e.g., hepatic insufficiency, renal insufficiency, gastric or intestinal ulceration). As well as exclusion criteria for an MRI examination (e.g. metals in the body, pacemaker, claustrophobia).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Influence of hormonal composition of body odor on behavioral parameters (attractiveness evaluation, approach tendency, pregnancy assessment) and cerebral network activation of male and female subjects.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method MRI studies with 150 subjects, 50 males and 50 each ovulating and menstruating females (functional imaging data, behavioral data (attractiveness assessment, approach tendency)).