Psychology 2020A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anticholinergic, Arecoline, Cholinergic

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2020A/B
• Professor: Riley Hinson

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Dsm5: hallucinogens are sensory perception that has the compelling sense of reality of a true perception, but occurs without external stimulation of the relevant sensory organs. Hallucinogens are comprise of a very heterogeneous class of drugs including four categories: cholinergic hallucinogens (ex. atropine, scopolamine, arecoline, ibotenic acid, serotonergic or 5-ht like halluciongens (ex. Dmt: methylated amphetamines or non-adrenergic hallucinogens (ex. mescaline, Cholinergic drugs classified as hallucinogens: a large number of plants contain substances that affect the cholinergic nervous system. Humans were quick to discover that ingestion of these plants could produce a delirium state or be used a poisons: drugs acting as agonists and antagonists in the cholinergic nervous system produce psychoactive effects, cholinergic agonist hallucinogens. These drugs stimulate primarily muscarinic cholinergic receptors, producing greater than normal neural activity in the cholinergic nervous system. This system is involved in learning and memory: amanita muscaria. The fly agaric mushroom, named after it"s ability to attract and kill flies.