# Crainal Nerve 0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Studies & Abstracts\ **Created:** [March 19, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/crainal-nerve-0/2586 "2007-03-19T19:04:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mtnjim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/mtnjim/32/2010_2.png) [@Mtnjim](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Mtnjim)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/crainal-nerve-0/2586/1 "2007-03-19T19:04:44Z")
[Sex and the Secret Nerve](http://www.sciammind.com/article.cfm?&articleID=792DDD7C-E7F2-99DF-397429B8BB8ED7ED)**Could a little-known cranial nerve be the route by which human [pheromones](https://pheromonelabs.com/) turn us on?** By R. Douglas Fields [http://www.sciammind.com/media/struct/trans.gif](http://www.sciammind.com/media/struct/trans.gif) We stood around the body planning our autopsy strategy. A scalpel, we realized, was not going to be the appropriate implement for this corpse, so we made our decision. It took all three of us to muscle the slippery black bulk of the pilot whale into the screaming blur of the band-saw blade. The whale had died of natural causes, after a distinguished military tenure conducting deep-sea operations for the U.S. Navy, which sends marine mammals to places where humans cannot safely go. In death, it was going to perform one more service–provide us with information about its magnificent brain. The navy had invited Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers to come to its base in San Diego in the mid-1980s, and I had joined them. Dressed like fishmongers in black rubber smocks and boots, anatomist Leo S. Demski, visiting from the University of Kentucky, veterinarian Sam H. Ridgway of the Naval Oceans Systems Center and I sought to unravel a scientific mystery. It was imperative that we learn whether the whale had a certain cranial nerve–for reasons that will soon become apparent… **continued at Scientific American Digital** [http://www.sciammind.com/media/struct/trans.gif](http://www.sciammind.com/media/struct/trans.gif) ---
**Author:** ![toilofday](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/toilofday/32/371_2.png) [@toilofday](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/toilofday)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/crainal-nerve-0/2586/2 "2007-03-21T01:31:09Z")
Umm… whales? Lol. Here is link from wikipedia that you don’t have to pay for. [Cranial nerve zero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_nerve_zero) ---
**Author:** ![MarkL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/markl/32/825_2.png) [@MarkL](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/MarkL)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/crainal-nerve-0/2586/3 "2007-03-21T01:59:19Z")
So when someone says in a seductive voice “You get on my FIRST nerve” then you know you’re in the sweet spot. ---
**Author:** ![Mtnjim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/mtnjim/32/2010_2.png) [@Mtnjim](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Mtnjim)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/crainal-nerve-0/2586/4 "2007-03-21T23:41:36Z")
> [@toilofday](#): > > Umm… whales? Lol. Here is link from wikipedia that you don’t have to pay for. > > [Cranial nerve zero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_nerve_zero) Yes, I saw that entry, in fact it even cites the article I’m talking about. The whale was an important part of the story. If you didn’t find a copy of the story, it’s this: During evolution, the whales lost noses, and along with it the normal nerve (1) that process scent. However during the exchange of noses for blow holes, the nerve “0” moved along and whales still have one. ---
**Author:** ![toilofday](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/toilofday/32/371_2.png) [@toilofday](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/toilofday)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/crainal-nerve-0/2586/5 "2007-03-22T05:38:44Z")
Thanks for clearing that up. Every copy I found was charging for the information. ---
**Author:** ![Socrates](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Socrates](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Socrates)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 7:48am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/crainal-nerve-0/2586/6 "2007-03-22T07:48:29Z")
Yes I’ve read the full article in the hard copy only of ‘Scientific American’ magazine at a Borders bookshop. Very interesting indeed, thanks for posting this Jim! I think it could be useful to have more research on things related to this ‘Cranial Nerve Zero’… Visionary