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Limits of Human Perception

... temporal lobe and modulated by neurotransmitter acetylcholine; psychedelics presumably activate this function spontaneously by interrupting aminergic alertness of the forebrain.25 If psychedelic hallucinations capitalize on the brain’s capacity t...

Substances that Enhance Recall and Lucidity During Dreaming

... comprising administration to individuals the acetylcholine Esterase inhibitor class of drugs. Use of therapeutic agents recently developed for Alzheimer"s Disease such as Donepizil (Aricept), Rivastigmin (Exelon), Galantamine (Reminyl, Nivalin),...

Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered

... anticholinergic because they block the action of acetylcholine, a nerve transmitter substance that controlls the contraction of skeletal muscles and also plays an important role in the chemistry of the brain. They are called deliriants because their...

The neuropsychology of REM sleep dreaming

RECENT PET imaging and brain lesion studies in humans are integrated with new basic research findings at the cellular level in animals to explain how the formal cognitive features of dreaming may be the combined product of a shift in neuromodulatory ...

Eidetic Hallucination

... the process of REM and dreaming is stimulated by acetylcholine (Fig. 4).10 Acetylcholine (ACh) is the primary messenger of the brain’s cholinergic system, essential to hippocampal modulation of memory compression and recall. Sleep-onset, sleeping,...

The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness

... here because of his discussion of the serotonin/acetylcholine modulatory gate that switches between waking and dreaming. This model is presented in the AIM state description of consciousness. Chapter 4: In order for information to be stored in m...

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