Natural born killer
Posted on 10/14/2019 10:45:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In the 1950s, researchers stumbled upon a new class of drugs that provided relief for those suffering from schizophrenia. These drugs were known as antipsychotics and, as the name suggests, they reduced symptoms like hallucinations and delusions — primarily by reducing the levels of dopamine in the brain. This led clinicians and scientists to argue that dopamine was linked to the experiences of psychotic symptoms, and a concerted research effort ensued, seeking to solve the puzzle of why excess dopamine might produce hallucinations.
Although it was later shown that increasing dopamine could produce hallucinations, establishing a consistent link between them, it has not been clear why.
They achieved this by taking advantage of a simple fact: Your brain is lazy. It makes shortcuts to understand the deluge of information that bombards it daily. If you’re presented with consistent information, consistently, your brain adjust its expectations of reality in turn. This is the basis of Bayesian theories of how we perceive the world – that is, the brain makes inferences about the world around us based on statistics and probabilities on what is likely to occur.
[I]ncreasing dopamine made it more difficult for participants to adjust their perception — an effect comparable to how the hallucinators had struggled. Moreover, the extent to which participants struggled was strongly associated with the severity of hallucinations — but not with any diagnosis of schizophrenia. In other words, the difficulty appeared to be associated with a symptom, not a diagnosis.
Using brain imaging, the researchers also showed that an increased capacity for dopamine release, from a part of the brain known as the striatum (an area involved in schizophrenia), was associated with the severity of hallucinations. Together, these experiments showed that excess dopamine was associated with difficulty in accurately predicting reality.
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Eggs and chocolate? Don’t they appear together in dozens of recipes?
Yes, but the eggs are usually a chemical element in baked goods rather than the feature.
A ‘hard reset’. Hold down the right side button and the front button for a week, or until the apple shows, whichever comes first.
I wasn’t holding them down long enough.
I blame coffee deprivation.
Or maybe some other depravity...
True.
Ah, learning experiences!
Natural born killer
Don’t eat me, kitteh!
Heh heh heh
Yes, eggs and chocolate often go together in recipes because it holds the chocolate and all the other stuff together so they don’t separate during the cooking process. Like brownies. And chocolate waffles... Etc., etc., etc.
There's a good chance you hallucinated this week without ever knowing it
Sounds perfect to me. Hey, aren't they in a permanent state of hallucination in the news media and the rest of the entertainment industry?
Afternoon! The Spanish Mass came off with minor glitches, human and electrical. Nothing unusual. We had a guest priest from Colombia who needed to speak up with some energy. Maybe he was tired.
Now I need to go to Walmart even though Jake wants me to go to bed with him. We’re almost out of milk.
Did any of you lose your 20-posts-per-page view? Suddenly I’m seeing the the whole string in one page, even if it’s over 100.
Nevermind. I was able to reset it at “My Preferences.”
Were there any Missouri wheys?
In your case, its your driveway, m’Lady.
Ham head was an epileptic, also.
There is a realm with different spacetime coordinates no further away from us than the length of a forearm (Daniel 5 reveals it nicely). The temporal balance in that realm may be quite different from ours. You may have some brain chemistry or physiology which tunes you into that realm occasionally.
I snarked in at post 74.
I did some overdue homework on the Undead Thread link history which is posted on my about page. It hadn't been updated in six months, but then we haven't changed threads in six months.
Yes, yes, chocolate. Remarkable stuff. It's like Oxy-Kleen for dementors.
How useful!
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