Sentences with phrase «alter psychotropic»

Pharmacogenomic testing may help identify subsets of the population who carry genetic variants that may alter psychotropic response to specific antidepressants.

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A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness and behavior.

The confusion over which strain belongs to which species derives in part from illicit growers ascribing a species name to a plant based on its psychotropic effects, rather than its actual genetic makeup: Many, ah, enthusiasts believe C. sativa produces a stimulating, mind - altering effect thanks to delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a chemical found in the plant's sticky resin.

It has mood - altering (psychotropic) attributes and is a mild diuretic.

For too many people, antidepressants and other psychotropic, mind altering medications avoid important issues by numbing and disconnecting the individuals from what makes them human: clear thinking, heartfelt feeling or directed willing.

We have entered a post-genomic era in which we yearn to create some kind of bio-scientifically engineered paradise where all sentient life can languish in some bovine stupor, in some chemically altered pseudo reality stage - managed by transnational psychotropic drug dealers who offer to chemically separate us from the emotional squalor of our Precambrian brain through a vast array of designer lifestyle drugs, where we sit in uninterrupted epiphanic bliss at the feet of a statue of a Quarter Pounder in some prosaic cobblestone courtyard at a secluded Ronald McDonald House next to an 18 - hole golf course, or in some kind of edenic trans - human extended epiphany in a university seminar room overflowing with just the correct mixture of a Leibnizian optimism and Nietzschean Dionysian pessimism.

Will you state clearly and unequivocally here that you A: Have not been and are not now under psychiatric care and that B: You have not been prescribed mood altering meds like Valium, or psychotropic drugs (such as SSRIs like Paxil, Wellbutrin, Prozac, etc)?

For Fred Tomaselli, art has psychotropic properties; it creates a pathway to altering and rearranging our perceptions of reality.