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Novel Psychoactive Substances 14Recent Progress on Neuropharmacological Mechanisms of Action for Selected Drugs [PDF]
, 2017 A feature of human culture is that we can learn to consume chemical compounds, derived from natural plants or synthetic fabrication, for their psychoactive effects.
Boris B. , Quednow +8 more
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Şırnak Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021 Algı ve durum değişikliğine neden olan halüsinojenik bileşikler içeren psikoaktif bitkilerin binlerce yıldır yerli halklar tarafından ritüellerde kullanıldığı bilinmektedir. Bu bağlamda psikoaktif bir içecek olan ayahuasca eski zamanlardan beri Amazon ormanlarında yaşayan çok sayıda yerli kabilenin dinî, tıbbî, sosyal ve sanatsal yaşamlarında önemli ...
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Acute Biphasic Effects of Ayahuasca
PLOS ONE, 2015 Ritual use of ayahuasca, an amazonian Amerindian medicine turned sacrament in syncretic religions in Brazil, is rapidly growing around the world. Because of this internationalization, a comprehensive understanding of the pharmacological mechanisms of action of the brew and the neural correlates of the modified states of consciousness it induces is ...
Schenberg, EE +10 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018 Major depression is a highly prevalent mood disorder, affecting about 350 million people, and around 30% of the patients are resistant to currently available antidepressant medications.
Ana C. de Menezes Galvão +21 more
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The Strange Visitor: Towards a Theory on Amazonian Rituals [PDF]
El hábito de entender el ritual como una representación de estructuras sociales y simbólicas lleva a dejar en segundo plano su eficacia simbólica y su eficacia social.
Arisi, Barbara, Calavia Sáez, Óscar
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The Santa Clara, 2019-05-09 [PDF]
, 2018 https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/tsc/1094/thumbnail ...
Santa Clara University
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Creativity and psychoactive substance use: a systematic review [PDF]
, 2017 The role of psychoactive substance use in the research of artistic creation and creativity is a long-standing topic. Ever since the discovery of LSD, researchers have examined the relationship between the effects of chemical substances and the artistic ...
Demetrovics, Z, Griffiths, MD, Iszáj, F
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2018 Ayahuasca ingestion modulates brain activity, neurotransmission, gene expression and epigenetic regulation. N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT, one of the alkaloids in Ayahuasca) activates sigma 1 receptor (SIGMAR1) and others. SIGMAR1 is a multi-faceted stress-
Antonio Inserra +2 more
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Potential therapeutic use of ayahuasca: A literature review
Acta AmazonicaAyahuasca is a psychoactive decoction originally used in indigenous Amazonian culture. It consists of a dense brown liquid that most frequently results from the decoction of two plants native to the Amazon rainforest, Psychotria viridis (Rubiaceae) and ...
S. Costa +9 more
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El retorno a Eleusis: ¿tienen los alucinógenos un papel en terapéutica? [PDF]
, 2015 Desde los años 70, y tras la explosión de la psicodelia, el interés por el poder terapéutico de los alucinógenos (o 'psicodélicos') se había desvanecido de manera paralela a su inclusión dentro del extenso grupo de las drogas de abuso o recreativas ...
López Briz, Eduardo
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