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Educational Media Reviews Online January 11, 2013 Jim Hobbs
Distributed by Icarus Films, 32 Court St., 21st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 800-876-1710Produced by Venture Film in coproduction with RSI – Radiotelevisione svizzera, Teleclub, Lichtblick Filmproduktion, and Spotlight Media ProductionsDirected by Martin Witz2011, DVD, color and b&w, 81 min. The Substance is a social and cultural history of lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. LSD began as an...
Neurotoxicology January 2013 João Paulo Capela, Silvana Da Costa Araújo, Vera Marisa Costa et al.
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA or "Ecstasy") and 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine hydrochloride (DOI) are hallucinogenic amphetamines with addictive properties. The hippocampus is involved in learning and memory and seems particularly vulnerable to amphetamine's neurotoxicity. We evaluated the neurotoxicity of DOI and MDMA in primary neuronal cultures of hippocampus obtained from Wistar...
Religion, Brain & Behavior 2013
This study is a critique of three assumptions that have significantly shaped the neuropsychological study of mystical experience: (a) intense positive emotion, especially ecstasy, is the defining feature of mystical experience; (b) abnormal temporolimbic activity, particularly epileptiform activity, is the central mediating factor or cause of mystical experience; and (c) mystical experience...
Harm Reduction Journal 2013 Levente Móró, József Rácz 82 citations
Harm reduction has been increasingly finding its way into public drug policies and healthcare practices worldwide, with successful intervention measures justifiably focussing on the highest-risk groups, such as injecting drug users. However, there are also other types of drug users in need for harm reduction, even though they pose less, low, or no public health risk. Occasionally, drug users...
Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners 2013 Teri Moser Woo, James R Hanley 47 citations
Adolescents have access to a variety of legal or illicit substances that they use to alter their mood or "get high." The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of common substances adolescents use to get high, including the illicit substances synthetic marijuana or "Spice," salvia, MDMA, synthetic cathinones, and 2C-E. Dextromethorphan and energy drinks are easily accessible...
December 1, 2012 D. Compton, Melissa C. Selinger, E. Westman et al.
Fo xy or Methoxy Fo xy (5-MeO-DIPT) is one of a series of new "club drugs" that within the past decade has gained in popularity among recreational users as an alternative to MDMA (Ecstasy). Unlike M DMA, not much is known about the neurobiological consequences of 5-MeO-DIPT use. Little is known about the effects of either co mpound on learning in a nonspatial appetitive task. In the present...
Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy December 1, 2012 Lucas R. Watterson, L. Hood, Kaveish Sewalia et al. 71 citations
Methylone is a member of the designer drug class known as synthetic cathinones which have become increasingly popular drugs of abuse in recent years. Commonly referred to as “bath salts”, these amphetamine-like compounds are sold as “legal” alternatives to illicit drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy). Following their dramatic rise in...
Open Mind October 1, 2012 Thomas John Mcconochie
"Mysticism" is a phenomenon which many sinologists have attributed to Zhuongzi. The problem is that they make this attribution in passing and without much reference to literature on the subject of mysticism itself. By analysing three specific examples of mystical experience in Zhuongzi and explicating them in terms of literature on mysticism, I provide a more explicit hermeneutic for the...
Experimental Brain Research September 2012 Miriam Fishbein, Sahar Gov, Fadi Assaf et al.
We have previously reported that a single injection of an ultra-low dose of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC; the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana) protected the brain from pentylenentetrazole (PTZ)-induced cognitive deficits when applied 1-7 days before or 1-3 days after the insult. In the present study we expanded the protective profile of THC by showing that it protected mice from...
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies September 1, 2012 Katherine Zieman
This essay explores the late medieval rhetoric of self-representation and conceptions of audience through an examination of the writings of the fifteenth-century Carthusian monk Richard Methley. Methley is considered as a “public contemplative” — a writer who offers his own contemplative experiences to a greater audience. Because these experiences, unlike visions, involved embodied ecstasies...