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LSD reveals schizophrenia treatment
#8065478 - 02/24/08 06:08 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23270344-12377,00.html
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From correspondents in Paris | February 25, 2008
SCIENTISTS looking at the effects of LSD in the brain have made an unexpected discovery that could lead to improved treatments for schizophrenia, according to a study published today.
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His study also helps settle a decades-long debate, providing further evidence that LSD does, in fact, mirror the symptoms and chemical activity found in the brains of schizophrenics.
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Re: LSD reveals schizophrenia treatment [Re: zappaisgod]
#8065649 - 02/24/08 06:41 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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His study also helps settle a decades-long debate, providing further evidence that LSD does, in fact, mirror the symptoms and chemical activity found in the brains of schizophrenics.
So then I guess my friends were right when they told me I would go crazy taking that much LSD.
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Re: LSD reveals schizophrenia treatment [Re: ToTheSummit]
#8067004 - 02/24/08 11:34 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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ya i totaly feel mental sometimes lol but its all in the fun of it
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Re: LSD reveals schizophrenia treatment [Re: zappaisgod]
#8068027 - 02/25/08 09:46 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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interesting, good read
thanks
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zappaisgod
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Re: LSD reveals schizophrenia treatment [Re: demiu5]
#8068868 - 02/25/08 03:05 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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The thing about LSD is that you have to hold on to the notion that you ARE going to come down. Schizophrenics don't have that, they never come down.
I also don't think it is anywhere near equivalent, just an interesting concurrence of certain features that doesn't surprise me a bit.
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Re: LSD reveals schizophrenia treatment [Re: zappaisgod]
#8077431 - 02/27/08 02:26 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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When mice under the influence of LSD were given a second drug targeting only the glutamate receptor, it neutralised the hallucinogenic effect of the LSD, said the study, published in the British journal Nature.
Anyone know how you can tell a tripping mouse from a sober mouse?
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Re: LSD reveals schizophrenia treatment [Re: koppie]
#8078200 - 02/27/08 05:39 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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koppie said:
Anyone know how you can tell a tripping mouse from a sober mouse?
There's no way to tell exactly. Drug discrimination seems to give us a good idea though. I believe this laboratory uses the head-twitch response as a marker of 5-HT2A activation, which isn't specific to hallucinogens.
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