PSYC62H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mescaline, Anticholinergic, Hallucinogen
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Psyc62: lecture 9 dissociative anesthetics, psychedelics and hallucinogens. Monday 4 pm 2 hard copies bound together. Psychotomometic drugs mimic functions of psychoses like schizophrenia. Whether these drugs really expands the mind is controversial. Hallucinogens is most commonly used to classify these drugs. Misleading b/c they produce hallucinations, but do other things like pround effects on mood thinking physio. More than 90 diff plants and synthetic agents that can produce these effects. Monoamine-related substances also referred to as serotonin related primary monoamine system: mdma ecstasy, lsd synthetic, mescaline and psilocybin are like lsd derived from mushroom. Cannabinoids can be a family of themselves as they have some unique properties. Anticholinergic drugs act on cholinergic receptors in brain and produce a dream like trance from which user awakens from little recollection of events. Dissociative anesthetics (schedule 2 & 3: pcp angel dust, ketamine, ability to produce surgical anesthesia without patient losing complete consciousness, act at receptors that influence transmission in glutamate systems.
