How psychedelics affect behavior.doc
The main feature of any of the substances labeled psychedelic is the enhancement of experience. Psychedelics have even been described as "instant experience." These drugs seem to raise the level of respond to fine gradations of stimulus input, to enhance response to stimulation at the upper and lower levels of perceptual responding. In contrast, depressants, such as alcohol and the barbiturates, and narcotics, such as opium and morphine, reduce attention to stimulus input. This looks like good news for some people but the use of psychedelics has a great disadvantage because it can cause communication breakdown in the brain. The use of psychedelics can cause strong temporary changes in individual's sense of life and his experience his very dependent on the setting around him and more over it can trigger hidden mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or other mental problemsPsychedelic can cause strong, temporary changes in an individual's experience of life and reality. This happens because this type of drugs affects the thinking and often senses like vision, hearing, smell, touch, and the body sensors that are responsible for informing the brain about body needs. The intensity of the wide variety of effects, are related
Solomon H. Snyder. (1996, January) Drugs and the Brain Keith A. Trujillo, Ph.D., and Andrea B. Chinn. (1996, October 2). Drugs and the brain, psychedelics. to the size of the dose ingested, the mental state of the user, and the setting in which it is used. The behavior is uncontrollable once the drug has been ingested because there is no antidote. At high enough doses, many drugs will produce hallucinations, usually as a side effect of toxicity. While most psychedelics produce alterations in perceptions, many also affect mood, thinking, and physiological processes. What distinguishes this class of drugs is that they cause hallucinations at very low doses and the hallucinations are a direct result of the drug and not a toxic drug effect. (Keith, 1996) The measurable physiolo! A behavior of people under psychoactive drugs is significantly affected be experiences, set and setting. Also affects moods and emotions and suppresses memory centers and other higher cerebral functions, such as judgment, reason, behavior control, and self-awareness. (Solomon, 1996) Emotional responses to the vivid hallucinations can be wide-ranging, from euphoria and contentment to disturbing feelings of confusion, fear, and despair. Moods can change profoundly in a short period, from excitability to tranquility. Psychological state of the user changes rapidly and often just a changed ambient light in intensity or color may trigger situation that the user beliefs he moved to another room. Psychedelics and the reality cannot work together while under the effect of drugs the human in you is in a strange state. The human body sensors do not work in a normal way and the person must simulate many
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