Psychology 2020A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Amanita Muscaria, Cholinergic, Ibogaine
12 Dec 2018
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Cholinergic hallucinogens: a large number of plants contain substances that affect the cholinergic system, these plants produce a delirium like state, drugs acting as antagonists and agonists produce psychoactive effects. Ibogaine: yellowish plant found in africa, chewing the root results in low doses, produces a stimulating effect, main psychoactive compound is ibotenic acid. Jimsonweed is cultivated now for decoration: henbane. Timothy leary and richard alpert researched psilocybin and lsd at. Harvard: lsd was used in psychotherapy during the 1950s and 60s, the rationale being that they would communicate more openly and be more open to suggestions, lsd was legal in the us until 1966. Synaesthesia (perception of one sense in another sense modality) Small periods of time seeming long: this may be due to the analgesic effects of the drug, bad trips/panic attacks, hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (hppd) - long lasting, distressing, Neurochemical actions of lsd and other 5-ht hallucinogens.
