PSYC62H3 Lecture Notes - Agonist, Therapeutic Index, Retrograde Signaling
Document Summary
Hallucinogens is the most commonly used name for this class of drugs. Refer to the fact that they can produce hallucinations and other alterations in perception and sensory alterations. Advocates of hallucinogenic use referred to them as psychedelics (like lsd) to refer to their mind- expanding or altering properties, but whether these drugs have these properties is controversial, so we don"t use this term anymore. Some would argue that even the term hallucinogen is misleading because they produce other effects, like profound effects on mood, on thinking processes, on some physiological processes, not just hallucinations. These drugs are capable of inducing hallucinations, and have consciousness-altering and perception-altering properties: more than 90 different plants and many more synthetic agents that can produce these hallucinations, this is why we subdivide them into different organizations/classification. Four major classes of hallucinogens (grilly, 2002): monoamine-related substances (e. g. , lsd, mdma, mescaline, and psilocybin) Lsd is a synthetic drug, prototypic hallucinogens.
