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... symptoms of neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. The effects of hallucinogens are thought to be mediated by serotonin receptor activation; however, how these drugs elicit the unusual behavioral effects remains largely a mystery, despi...
... states of consciousness resembling psychosis and schizophrenia. States of nonlinear organization in neural networks can be controlled through energetic periodic drivers, such as music, singing, chanting, and dancing; making psychedelic consciousness...
... a constraining role in their formation. In schizophrenia, the ability of sensory input to modulate self-organisation of thalamocortical gamma activity may be generally reduced. If during arousal thalamocortical self-organisation is underconstr...
Serotonin research: contributions to understanding psychoses
... states seen in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia might be attributable, in part, to abnormalities in serotonergic systems began with the almost simultaneous discovery of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin and serotonin. Sixty...
... psoriasis, type II diabetes, depression, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease. Our results indicate that activation of 5-HT2A receptors represents a novel, and extraordinarily potent, potential therapeutic avenue for the treatment of disor...
Spirits and Spiritual Communion
... destabilization: deprivation, psychosis, schizophrenia, stress, fever, and hallucination; because of this it is easy to assume that hearing the voice of God is a symptom of insanity. According to PIT, when the brain destabilizes due to hallu...
... coincidence are common in psychosis, paranoia, schizophrenia, mania, bipolar disorder, and psychedelic intoxication. On psychedelics this state is dose dependent and increases in complexity with larger doses until it appears the entire fabric of r...
Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy
... psoriasis, type II diabetes, depression, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease.11 Because the 5-HT2A receptor is a G-coupled protein that promotes secondary transmission within the cell membrane, psychedelics that target the 5-HT2A recepto...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
... states, and the Ketamine/NMDA model of schizophrenia. Hallucinations, mystical experience, and delusions of grandeur are par for the course with psychosis, as is paranoia and irrational belief, yet many people who use psychedelics spiritua...
Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
... as a result of disorders like epilepsy and schizophrenia, following sensory deprivation, or even just after applying pressure to the eyeballs. So common are these geometric hallucinations, that in the last century scientists began asking thems...
The three events, viz. schizophrenia, dissociative anaesthesia and Near-Death Experience, despite their seemingly unrelated manifestation to each other, have nevertheless similar functional basis. All three events are linked to the glutamate sensitiv...
Impairments in frontal cortical gamma synchrony and cognitive control in schizophrenia
A critical component of cognitive impairments in schizophrenia can be characterized as a disturbance in cognitive control, or the ability to guide and adjust cognitive processes and behavior flexibly in accordance with one's intentions and goals. Cog...
Notes on Psychedelics and Schizophrenia
... of psychedelic intoxication matching states of schizophrenia taken from subjective reports and surveys of case studies....
... influence of psychedelics resembles states of schizophrenia. Breathing Walls, Melting Textures, Creeping Carpets [fig]2;1[/fig]Subjects under the influence of hallucinogens report breathing walls, creeping carpets, and melting textures. These ...
Altered States: The Origin of Art in Entoptic Phenomena
... migraine, hyperventilation, rhythmic movement, schizophrenia, brain damage, intense emotion, stress, food and water deprivation, withdrawal from alcohol, advanced syphilis, crystal gazing, fever, etc. (Lewis-Williams and Dowson, 1988; Asaad and Sh...
Sensory gating deficits in schizophrenia: new results
OBJECTIVE: It has been widely hypothesized that sensory gating failures and sensory overload occur in schizophrenic patients compared to normal subjects. The authors of this study sought to confirm and extend results of earlier studies that showed sp...
PET and MRI of the thalamus in never-medicated patients with schizophrenia
... obtained in 20 never-medicated patients with schizophrenia and 15 normal volunteers. Methods for thalamic edge finding, statistical testing of shape differences with chi-square maps, and MRI localization of major thalamic subregions were develop...
DOI disrupts prepulse inhibition of startle in rats via 5-HT2A receptors in the ventral pallidum.
... of sensorimotor inhibition that is deficient in schizophrenia, Huntington's disease, and obsessive compulsive disorder. In the present studies, the localization of the 5-HT2A receptors responsible for modulating PPI was investigated using central i...
... Alzheimer's disease, which effects memory, and schizophrenia, which affects coherence and linear stability. These two examples compress a much larger discussion of how the degradation or loss of specific functions and operating properties of consc...
The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
... how similar imbalances may cause depression and schizophrenia. He also draws on work that expands our understanding of how certain drugs can correct imbalances and restore the brain's natural equilibrium. Hobson explains the chemical balance con...
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