News tagged with hallucinogens


Legal high Benzo Fury may be dangerous due to stimulant and hallucinogenic effects

The 'legal high' known as Benzo Fury may have stimulant as well as hallucinogenic effects according to new research presented at the British Neuroscience Association Festival of Neuroscience today (Tuesday ...

Neuroscience created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain cell signal network genes linked to schizophrenia risk in families

New genetic factors predisposing to schizophrenia have been uncovered in five families with several affected relatives. The psychiatric disorder can disrupt thinking, feeling, and acting, and blur the border ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 03, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The mysterious GRIN3A and the cause of schizophrenia

Since the 1960s, psychiatrists have been hunting for substances made by the body that might accumulate in abnormally high levels to produce the symptoms associated with schizophrenia. In particular, there was a search for ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 14, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers tackle designer drug craze

(Medical Xpress) -- President Obama signed a bill into law this week designating certain chemicals found in designer drugs as FDA-controlled substances.

Addiction created Jul 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Summer is peak time for teens to try drugs, alcohol: report

(HealthDay) -- More teenagers start drinking and smoking cigarettes and marijuana in June and July than in any other months, U.S. health officials say.

Health created Jul 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study solves structure of 'salvia receptor', reveals how salvinorin A interacts with it

At the molecular level, drugs like salvinorin A (the active ingredient of the hallucinogenic plant Salvia divinorum) work by activating specific proteins, known as receptors, in the brain and body. Salvin ...

Medical research created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Your brain on 'shrooms: fMRI elucidates neural correlates of psilocybin psychedelic state

(Medical Xpress) -- Psychedelic substances have long been used for healing, ceremonial, or mind-altering subjective experiences due to compounds that, when ingested or inhaled, generate hallucinations, perceptual ...

Neuroscience created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (43) | comments 45 | with audio podcast feature

First and only study on harmful effects of infants prenatally exposed to ecstasy

A study led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of East London UK, and Swansea University UK, is the first to show the effects of the drug ecstasy on fetal and infant ...

Addiction created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Single dose of hallucinogen may create lasting personality change

A single high dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called "magic mushrooms," was enough to bring about a measureable personality change lasting at least a year in nearly 60 percent of the 51 participants ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 40 | with audio podcast

Ketamine helps see how the brain works in clinical depression

(Medical Xpress) -- In a new study published in Nature, Lisa Monteggia from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center looks at how the drug ketamine, typically used as an anesthetic or a popular recreational drug f ...

Medical research created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report