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Serotonin research: contributions to understanding psychoses
... discovery of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin and serotonin. Sixty years of study have confirmed early speculations regarding the important relationship between serotonin and both drug-induced and disorder-based psychotic states. Now, ...
A systems model of altered consciousness: integrating natural and drug-induced psychoses
... the serotonin-2A (5-HT(2A)) receptor agonist, psilocybin, suggest that the hallucinogenic effects of these drugs arise, at least in part, from their common capacity to disrupt thalamo-cortical gating of external and internal information to the co...
Notes on MAOi and hallucination
... with psychedelic tryptamines such as DMT, psilocybin, LSD, and 5-MeO-DMT confirm that the addition of an MAOi increases potency and hallucination by an order of magnitude. MAOi potentiation can come from plant sources, such as the harmala alk...
Information Genesis and Complexity
... influence of tryptamine hallucinogens such as psilocybin and ayahuasca (DMT), and the source of this field is often perceived to be divine in origin, leading to many interesting speculations about spirit realms, Akashic fields, morphogenetic fiel...
Interpretation of visual space under drug-induced ergotropic and trophotropic arousal
... that ergotropic arousal inducing drugs, such as psilocybin, a Ditran®-type lsquoglycolatersquo andd-amphet-amine, significantly lower human spatial distortion thresholds, i.e. these drugs, interfere with counter-adaptation to optical distortion, o...
Effects of psychodysleptic drug psilocybin on visual perception. Changes in brightness preference.
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Psilocybin-induced contraction of nearby visual space
... a median age of 23.5 years under 160 mgrg/kg psilocybininduced ergotropic arousal. Handwriting area and pressure were also measured in the same subjects. Drug-induced contraction of nearby visual space was inferred from changes of AFP curvatu...
psilocybin has been used for centuries for religious purposes; however, little is known scientifically about its long-term effects. We previously reported the effects of a double-blind study evaluating the psychological effects of a high psilocybin...
Pahnke's 'Good Friday Experiment' A Long-Term Follow-Up And Methodological Critique
... 1969b, 1969c). Half the capsules contained psilocybin (30mg), an extract of psychoactive mushrooms, and the other half contained a placebo. According to Pahnke, the experiment determined that "the persons who received psilocybin experienced...
Why are Psychedelics Spiritual?
... can look to two different Harvard studies with psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms. The first was the “Good Friday Experiment” carried out by Walter Pahnke in 1962,1 the second was a study on the long-term effects of p...
... hallucinogenic compounds that occur in nature, psilocybin (found in magic mushrooms) is the only one that comes with its own phosphate group, and it also appears to be the weakest tryptamine agonist at the 5-HT2A receptor.13 While it is tempting t...
An Overview of Physical Shamanism
... is reported as a spiritual side effect of psilocybin. Glossolalia may be considered a form of nonlinear speech or psychedelic information transmission erupting spontaneously through psychomotor synesthesia. When the shaman wants to speak with...
Notes on Hypnotic Psychedelics
... reports show that some tryptamines, such a the psilocybin and psilocin found in magic mushrooms, naturally make you feel sleepy and dreamy even in loud sensory environments. Other tryptamines, like LSD, can have paradoxically trance-like or stimul...
... caused by psychedelics (e.g. LSD, mescaline, psilocybin). They rather point to a similarity between the altered states produced by ayahuasca and marihuana which also stimulates the brain to produce more alpha waves. We suggest that these finding...
... effects of chemical stimulation (by mescaline, psilocybin and LSD) on electrically-induced phosphenes as to their bandwidth, shape, number and intensity. An increase of two electrically-induced 'control' patterns in intensity and bandwidth and the...
Psilocybin: biphasic dose-response effects on the acoustic startle reflex in the rat
... or 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0 or 8.0 mg/kg psilocybin. Low doses (0.75-2.0 mg/kg) increased startle amplitude whereas high doses (4.0-8.0 mg/kg) depressed startle. Selected low (0.71 mg/kg) or high (5.70 mg/kg) doses of psilocin also had a bip...
... (N,N-dimethyltryptamine), 5-MeO-DMT, psilocin, psilocybin, DPT, AMT, and most psychedelic drugs with acronyms ending in T (which stands for Tryptamine). LSD is also a tryptamine, but it is larger and more complex than the other tryptamines, and is...
... challenge with the 5-HT2A agonist psilocybin (PY) is useful in studying the neurobiological basis of cognition and consciousness. Objective Investigation of dose-dependent effects of PY on psycho(patho)logical and physiological para...
Changes In Spider Webs Brought About By Mescaline, Psilocybin And An Increase In Body Weight
Some psychedelic users claim to have total mastery over their visions, but ...
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