Psychology 2020A/B Final: Drugs and Behaviour - Exam Study Note - Hallucinogens and Designer Drugs Unit
9 Jan 2012
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To wander in mind, talk idly or prate. Compelling sense of reality of a true perception. But occurs without external stimulation of the relevant sensory organ. Are all of the drugs we talk about able to produce. If not, what do they produce instead? (3) Which kind of drug that affects the cholinergic system produces psychoactive effects too? (agonist, antagonist or both?) They are heterogenous in terms of chemical structure and neurotransmitter mode of action: cholinergic hallucinogen, serotonergic/5-ht hallucinogens, methylated amphetamines/noradrenergic. Meaning jacking up some types of activity can produce psychoactive effects. And jacking down some types of activity can also produce psychoactive effects. What is it referred to as in hindu legends from. What other ones are there? (3) not as important. Producing greater than normal neural activity in the cholinergic ns. People used to put slices of the amanita muscaria mushroom into milk to attract flies and kill them.
