Week 12 (A)

Question 1

What are the four areas of psilocybin research?

Answer 1

1. Clinical therapy
2. Psychopharmacology (understand how brains naturally work)
3. Model psychosis
4. Consciousness research

Question 2

What type of receptors do psychedelics activate?

Answer 2

Serotonin

Across the CORTEX

Question 3

In terms of brain regions, what do we know about the impact of hallucinogens?

(Think cortex and thalamus)

Answer 3

1. Increased excitation in the cortex

2. Increased messages from cortex to thalamus

Question 4

Studies of meditation indicate that brain regions involved with WHAT are associated with meditation?

Answer 4

1. attention control
2. emotion regultion
3. self-awareness

Question 5

When it comes to depression, meditation appears to be particularly effective for what?

Answer 5

Preventing relapse, particularly for more severe depression

Question 6

According to a Danish study, exposure to what substance is associated with lower dementia?

Answer 6

Lithium