Sentences with phrase «psychedelic drugs such»

The patients in the study were given a number of bizarre treatments, including psychedelic drugs such as LSD and participating in naked encounter groups, in an effort to break down their defenses.

Psychedelic drugs such as LSD and magic mushrooms can profoundly alter the way we experience the world but little is known about what physically happens in the brain.

One of the most reliable — and reversible — ways to alter your sense of self is to ingest psychedelic drugs such as LSD or psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.

Psychologists have occasionally given people psychedelic drugs such as LSD or magic mushrooms to induce altered states, in an attempt to treat mental illness.

The neuropsychopharmacologist suggests a more novel approach might involve psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin, which have potential antidepressant effects.

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And for anyone who suspects that hemp brownies are truly a throwback to the 60s, let me say, first of all, that the hemp seeds in these are the edible kind, so you are not ingesting any mind - altering chemicals whatsoever here (unless you count the flood of serotonins in the brain due to their heavenly taste); and second of all, hemp is not the same thing as hash, and of course the classic hippie confection was a hash brownie; and third of all, how the heck would I even know, because I never did manage to consume any of the latter, even in my undergrad days, because I am such a nerd that nobody ever offered me any, and hash brownies never appealed to me, anyway — I mean, why sully your chocolate with psychedelic drugs?

In the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depression.

Combine your articles on psilocybin and other psychedelic drugs having beneficial effects on the brain (such as 25 November 2017, p 28) with the promising reports of 40 hertz bass tones and flickering lights reducing the tangles and plaques of tau and amyloid proteins that are correlated with Alzheimer's disease (6 January, p 6).

The UBC Okanagan study found that 42 per cent of U.S. adult male inmates who did not take psychedelic drugs were arrested within six years for domestic battery after their release, compared to a rate of 27 per cent for those who had taken drugs such as LSD, psilocybin (commonly known as magic mushrooms) and MDMA (ecstasy).

Why should having cone cells with fewer than the usual three pigments have such a dramatic effect on a person's response to psychedelic drugs?

But Lawn added that while ayahuasca appeared to have a better side effect «profile» than classic Western psychedelics such as LSD or magic mushrooms, taking the drug is not without risk.

Formed in California in 1965 by Jerry Garcia (who died in 1995), the band become renowned for their psychedelic predilections in both music and drug consumption, and as such, their visual output from record sleeves to sets and outfits was gorgeously colourful, lurid and body patterned.

Psychedelic art, usually referred to as art influenced by the hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD or mescaline, is closely related to the social and political context of the sixties and the birth of the hippie youth movement.

Even collage works such as Untitled (Second Stage Injector), 1963, and Algae, Algae, c. 1961 - 63, like the aforementioned sculptures, employ humor and psychedelic imagery to reference utopian ideals and the drug - induced haze of 1960s counterculture.

One way Pinchbeck sought to connect to a higher wisdom was by visiting and participating in initiation rites and psychedelic drug rituals with tribes such as the Bwiti cult in Gabon - Pinchbeck also interviews Sting in the film about the singer's psychedelic experience taking the hallucigenic Ayahuasca in Brazil.