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Cosmic Neuron
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Effect Of Psilocin On The Brain
#22160987 - 08/29/15 02:16 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Dear Psychologists and others, today, as a neuron, I was wondering about the effects that psilocin has on someone's brain. I read that it causes nerve cells to emit serotonin and then periodically takes away the emitting nerve cell's ability to reuptake any excess serotonin and that psilocin has a similar chemical structure to serotonin, so it can easily bind to neuroreceptors.
Should you know anything about the effects that psilocin has on your brain, please share your knowledge.
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Ego death is a fun experience although it isn't mentioned in here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin
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Cosmic Neuron said: today, as a neuron, I was wondering about ...
I'm sorry man, I can't add much as I don't know how it affects the brain specifically, but that is an absolutely brilliant start to a post.
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Re: Effect Of Psilocin On The Brain [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
#22171389 - 08/31/15 09:27 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Psilocin as well as other psychedelics shut down activity in the region of the brain responsible for 'filtering' information from reality, thereby allowing more information from the environment to enter the brain which would normally be filtered out.
It creates a hyper-connected brain, sprouting new links between previously disconnected brain regions.
Also, psilocin as well as other psychedelics have been shown to promote neurogenesis. (the growth of new brain cells)
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Re: Effect Of Psilocin On The Brain [Re: hTx]
#22171580 - 08/31/15 10:06 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Psilocin as well as other psychedelics shut down activity in the region of the brain responsible for 'filtering' information from reality, thereby allowing more information from the environment to enter the brain which would normally be filtered out.
It creates a hyper-connected brain, sprouting new links between previously disconnected brain regions.
It'd be interesting to understand this in a bit more depth. Do you have a source?
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Re: Effect Of Psilocin On The Brain [Re: Kurt]
#22173806 - 09/01/15 12:22 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Effect Of Psilocin On The Brain [Re: Kurt]
#22173828 - 09/01/15 12:30 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Kurt said:
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Psilocin as well as other psychedelics shut down activity in the region of the brain responsible for 'filtering' information from reality, thereby allowing more information from the environment to enter the brain which would normally be filtered out.
It creates a hyper-connected brain, sprouting new links between previously disconnected brain regions.
It'd be interesting to understand this in a bit more depth. Do you have a source?
theres another bit of information I nearly forgot, that magic mushrooms seem to put the brain into a waking dream state. (related to hyper-connected brain)
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-07/icl-nsd070114.php
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Cosmic Neuron
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Well, thank you.
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