Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Hallucinations Induced by Psychoactive Drugs: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Therapeutic Interventions

This review explains how certain psychoactive drugs can cause hallucinations and why that matters. It says drugs such as psilocybin and LSD change brain chemicals called serotonin and dopamine, and that can make people see or hear things that are not there. Effects can be mild or very serious, sometimes…

Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis Hallucinations in medical conditions Psychedelics and Drug Studies LSD Other
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