The Sanctuary
Carnality => Better Living Through Chemistry => Topic started by: splooge gook on October 16, 2014, 12:28:57 pm
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Most recreational drugs (excluding the harder ones and depressants i guess) probably contribute more to neurogenesis than they do to neurodegeneration. The antidepressant effects achieved by chronic use of some drugs can be attributed to neurogenesis in the hippocampus, which is the mechanism theorized to underly how SSRIs change the brain. Learning new information, even without the influence of any psychoactive drugs, causes DNA breakage in brain cells which is eventually patched up/pruned for a more efficient brain. Getting your body to undergo the neural adaptations in leisure that would normally only occur in rare/dangerous/spiritual experiences enhances the amount/type of data the brain can handle. In that sense I agree with Terrance McKenna's stoned ape theory. When you take all the serotonin and put it somewhere else after eating a handful of magic mushrooms, it's like subjecting everything to either a new type of skill or to natural selection. Hell, I'd even bet the psychedelic experiences that starter fluid can generate probably looks interesting in upregulation/downregulation on a brain scan, and may contribute to intelligence. More effort needs to be put into examining the changes in cells of neural tissues after acute/chronic administration of chemical XYZ
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"I type like a meth head because I'm smarter than everyone" syndrome
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bump
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs_eMqI1MIQ
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I used to make myself pass out and one time I woke up on my basement floor which is solid concrete and woke up like wtf where am I and why is my bed concrete and was gushing blood from my head and mouth, swallowed it because it was blood, turned out to be spilled the cup that I put cigarette butts in water and almost died from nicotine poisoning but I saw a color that doesn't already exist. I wish I could describe it but even if I did its a qualia.
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that sucks i really wanted to see it
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that's like nigger ayayayaacuahauaasa
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u got any scooby snax discount codes
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Indubitably sir. Amyl-nitrates, toluene, meth and halogenated amphetamines are certifiably bad for you though.
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Indubitably sir. Amyl-nitrates, toluene, meth and halogenated amphetamines are certifiably bad for you though.
Methamphetamine Induces Low Levels of Neurogenesis in Striatal Neuron Subpopulations and Differential Motor Performance
However, the proportion of these new neurons is low compared to the proportion that died by apoptosis 24 h after the METH injection. More studies are needed to determine if the new neurons are functional.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12640-014-9456-1