Schizophrenia exists on a spectrum... As with Autism, there are many shades of schizotypal symptoms. While not florid psychosis, the hypersensitivity of low LI often goes hand in hand with visionary or hypnagogic-type sensory phenomena.

Those are what are referred to as positive symptoms. The negative symptoms, the thought disorder, for instance, ( Read more... )

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Lets begin with a bit of background into the universal aspect of psychedelic use, historically, before getting into modeling psychedelic cognition.

EPIC INTRO

"Since the Dawn of Time, Man…has…wanted to get high."

So…

For what reason should science, devoted to understanding man’s past and building the foundation of man’s future, not take into account ( Read more... )

Latent inhibition (LI) is a phenomenon by which preexposure to the conditioned stimulus (CS) retards the subsequent generation of conditioned responses (CRs) when the CS is paired with an unconditioned stimulus (US)> (Lubow & Moore, 1959). Since LI is modulated by attentional processes, it has been suggested that the phenomeon might be useful in ( Read more... )

The Doors of Perception: A Cognitive Model

The latent inhibition (LI) paradigm was originally developed over 40 years ago (Lubow & Moore, 1959) to describe the capacity to filter out extraneous stimuli from conscious awareness. More simply, LI describes that common tendency to pay less attention to something the more we are exposed and become ( Read more... )

Where did the spiritual man of the village go back then ( Read more... )