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Indian Journal of Behavioural Sciences

ISSN 2319-2062

2 papers in the library · 1 citation · publishing 2022-2024

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Psychedelic Drugs: A Mind-expanding Hallucinogens

Indian Journal of Behavioural Sciences March 22, 2024 Shreyasee Das, Rahul Shil

Psychedelics are mainly from the class of psychoactive substances whose action is to produce changes in the perception, mood, cognitive behavior, and processes of a person. This psychedelic drug creates an alteration in a person’s thinking, sense of time, and emotions. Hallucinations can be a main cause for people who take psychedelics. Mainly, these psychedelic drugs have been used since...

Intravenous Ketamine-induced Affective Switch in a Patient of Major Depressive Disorder with Suicidal Ideation: A Case Report

Indian Journal of Behavioural Sciences September 26, 2022 Akanksha Varshney, Shravan Kumar, Ved Prakash Gupta et al. 1 citation

In treatment-resistant unipolar and bipolar depression, there is increasing evidence to support the fast, although the short-lived antidepressant effect of ketamine, a non-competitive glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist. Ketamine has been shown to cause transient mood elevation or euphoria, dissociative symptoms and psychotomimetic effects when administered in unipolar or bipolar...