HALUSINOGEN

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Halusinogen

 Natural and synthetic substances that are variously

called psychedelics or psychotomimetics
 Effects
 Inducing hallucinations
 Loss of contact with reality
 Experience of expanded and heightened
consciousness

Kaplan & Saddock Synopsis of Psychiatry. 17th Ed

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Halusinogen

 Natural
 Psilocybin
 Mescaline
 Dimethyltryptamin (DMT)
 Synthetic
 LSD

Kaplan & Saddock Synopsis of Psychiatry. 17th Ed

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Phencyclidine (PCP)

 Pharmacology
 Sold as a crystalline powder, paste, liquid, or druged-
soaked paper (blotter)
 Antagonist at the NMDA subtype of glutamate
receptors
 Activates the dopaminergic neurons of the ventral
tegmental area, which project to the cerebral cortex
and the lymbic system

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LSD

 Lysergic acid diethylamide

 Manufactured from a lysergic acid found in ergot, a
fungus that grows on grains
 Highest concentration was found in the
hippocampus and , in decreasing order, in the
basal ganglia, preventricular grey matter, and the
frontoparietal cortex

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