Sentences with phrase «produce hallucinations»

This is where they would have performed rituals that included inhaling cigar smoke through their nostrils to produce hallucinations that put them in touch with the spirit world.

The study is «very elegant,» and an important step toward identifying the brain regions that produce hallucinations — and keep them in check, says Georg Northoff, a neuroscientist at the University of Ottawa who was not involved with the work.

The following mushrooms are known to produce hallucination or altered sensory perception even among dogs.

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Compression of the optic nerve could produce tunnel vision; neurochemicals such as serotonin, endorphins, and enkephalins could help explain the euphoria; and psychotropics like LSD and mescaline often produce vibrant hallucinations of past events.

These brain scans show that when the parietal lobes go quiet, portions of the right temporal lobe — some of the same portions that Penfield showed produced feelings of excessive religiosity, out - of - body experiences, and vivid hallucinations — become more active.

Penfield, one of the giants of modern neuroscience, discovered that stimulating the brain's right temporal lobe — located just above the ear — with a mild electric current produced out - of - body experiences, heavenly music, vivid hallucinations, and the kind of panoramic memories associated with the life review part of the near - death experience.

Ketamine was developed as an anesthetic, but is better known publicly for its abuse as the party drug Special K. Researchers are now seeking alternatives because ketamine can produce side effects that include hallucinations and the potential for abuse — limiting its utility as an antidepressant.

Immune abnormalities in patients with psychosis have been recognized for over a century, but it has been only relatively recently that scientists have identified specific immune mechanisms that seem to directly produce symptoms of psychosis, including hallucinations and delusions.

Captain Taylor was worried that switching to another oxygen tank would be too much for the ladies and produce strange behavior and hallucinations.

The lack of any light bar and vibration implementation is quite surprising as the light bar could have produced an increasingly darker tone of red as a threatening situation looms to work in harmony with the visual effect of the HUD during such occurrences, while the DualShock 4 controller could have vibrated during any bumps and scrapes or perhaps even specifically the nightmarish hallucinations that Michonne endures along the way as well as the impact from the usage of any weapons such as her sword or a nearby object here and there to fend off walkers.

In McCall's words, «the figures recorded in 1972, circling round one another and assiduously producing images only of themselves, looked, then, like some kind of hallucination.

The title derivates from the series of works she has been producing as her visualization of «a psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to an experience of great personal significance, particularly viewing art ``.