Have you ever wondered why mothers cannot not stop smelling their newborn babies head, well now your about to find out as scientists say the scent of a newborn baby triggers the same responses in the brain as a person who is high.
According to study published in Frontiers in Psychology, it is thought that the smell of a newborn sends a unique trigger the same satisfying circuits in the brain as the ones makes us crave a certain type of food or the experience we feel from having sex.
The study also found the satisfying feeling is the exact same feeling an addict gets from taking drugs.
Dr Johannes Frasnelli of Montreal University said: “The odour activates the neurological reward circuit,” “The circuits may especially be activated when you eat while very hungry, but also in an addict receiving his drug. It is the sating of desire.”
The extensive study was conducted by Dr Frasnelli and his team who scanned the brains of two groups of 15 women — one that had given birth within six weeks and the other who had never had babies — while they were presented with the pyjama scents of newborns.
Even though the babies were not theirs, the report revealed that the levels of the ‘pleasure chemical’ dopamine shot up in the mothers significantly more than women who didn’t not have any children .
Dr Frasnelli, added it was possible that childbirth causes hormonal changes which alter the circuit. Meanwhile the test was not conducted on Men it’s not certain whether dads are programmed differently from non-dads.