Revista chilena de neuro-psiquiatría
June 1, 2014
S Christopher Timmermann
7 citations
El objetivo de esta revisión consiste en exponer los principales avances en la investigación reciente con sustancias psicodélicas en las neurociencias y sus aplicaciones psioterapéuticas. La acción de la psilocibina, un agonista del receptor 5-HT2A, ha sido asociada a una desactivación en la Default Mode Network (activada durante la introspección y pensamientos auto-referentes), un mayor acceso...
American Psychiatric Publishing eBooks
May 5, 2014
Robert N. Pechnick, Kathryn A. Cunningham, Itai Danovitch
The hallucinogens are a class of psychoactive drugs, either synthetic or plant products, that produce auditory and/or visual hallucinations as well as thought, mood, and perceptual changes. Depending on dosage, expectation (set), and environment (setting), they also can induce euphoria and a state similar to a transcendental experience. These hallucinations can be present as part of a delirium...
Journal of Forensic Sciences
May 1, 2014
Albert A. Elian, Jeffery Hackett
AbstractMethoxetamine ((RS)2‐(3‐methoxyphenyl)‐2‐(ethylamino)cyclohexanone)) is becoming a drug of interest among practitioners of forensic toxicology. In this case report, we describe the case background, standard field sobriety tests, sampling, and analysis of this drug in a whole blood sample as well as screening methods and analysis from a driver operating under the influence of...
Revista de Neuro-Psiquiatría
March 31, 2014
Daniel Rojas-Bolívar
6 citations
La ayahuasca es una liana que crece en la Amazonía y con la cual se prepara una sustancia con potentes propiedades psicoactivas, también denominada ayahuasca. Esta sustancia está ligada con la cosmovisión de los pueblos amazónicos que la consideran una planta espiritual y medicinal por las visiones y percepción de los efectos que produce. Las investigaciones en laboratorio muestran que la...
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
March 2014
Nicola Simola, Lucia Frau, Antonio Plumitallo et al.
Several studies suggest that 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) may indicate a positive affective state in rats, and these vocalizations are increasingly being used to investigate the properties of psychoactive drugs. Previous studies, however, have focused on dopaminergic psychostimulants and morphine, whereas little is known about how other drugs modulate 50-kHz USVs. To further elucidate...
Psychopharmacology
March 1, 2014
Amy J. Eshleman, Michael J Forster, Katherine M. Wolfrum et al.
72 citations
Psychoactive-substituted phenethylamines 2,5-dimethoxy-4-chlorophenethylamine (2C-C); 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylphenethylamine (2C-D); 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylphenethylamine (2C-E); 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine (2C-I); 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylthiophenethylamine (2C-T-2); and 2,5-dimethoxy-4-chloroamphetamine (DOC) are used recreationally and may have deleterious side effects. This study compares...
Life Sciences
February 27, 2014
Christopher L German, Annette E Fleckenstein, Glen R. Hanson
Synthetic cathinones are an emerging class of designer drugs abused for psychostimulant and hallucinogenic effects similar to cocaine, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), or other amphetamines. Abuse of synthetic cathinones, frequently included in products sold as 'bath salts', became prevalent in early 2009, leading to legislative classification throughout Europe in 2010 and schedule I...
Revista de Estudos e Investigações Antropológicas
2014
Wagner Lins Lira
O direcionamento deste artigo relaciona-se aos fenômenos subjetivos e espirituais emergentes nas sessões com ayahuasca ou Vegetal na Associação Espiritualista União do Vegetal (AEUDV), dissidência udvista pernambucana situada no município de Riacho das Almas, agreste do estado. Para tal, procuraremos entender como se dá a ligação dos adeptos com o Astral Superior a partir da relação direta...
Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.)
2014
Richard A Glennon
The term "synthetic cathinones" is fairly new, but, although the abuse of synthetic cathinones is a recent problem, research on cathinone analogs dates back >100 years. One structural element cathinone analogs have in common is an α-aminophenone moiety. Introduction of amine and/or aryl substituents affords a large number of agents. Today, >40 synthetic cathinones have been identified on the...
Salud Mental
2014
J. Díaz
4 citations
SUMMARY In the present paper, the multidisciplinary research on Salvia divinorum and its chemical principles is analyzed regarding whether the ethnobotany, phytochemistry, psychopharmacology, and neuropharmacology of this sacred psychoactive plant and main principle clarify its experienced effects and divinatory uses. The scientific endeavor traverses from the recorded traditional ceremonies...