LSD LSD (D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) is a synthetic hallucigenic drug, although it doesn't produce hallucinations but more severe distortions of the senses and thinking. It was synthized By Albert Hoffman from Ergotamine which is found in the deadly poisonous Ergot Fungus that used to grow on crops. it gives hallucinations and gangreen. LSD's treshhold dose is 25 micrograms. Common taken doses are about 100 micrograms. The effects are mood-changes, a lot of them, visual tracers, colors, synthesia, and other 'distortions' of the senses. There have been accidents on LSD, even suicides, but compared to other drugs not many at all. It was used mostly in the 60th's, untill it got made illigal and people started speading nonsense about it. It can cause schitzophrenia in sensitive people; and post-traumatic stress after a bad trip (which means nothing more then that you fought of the effect too mch) and in some cazes flashbacks (random comming back of the effect). Should still be used with causion.
02.26.99 - Revered chemist Glenn T. Seaborg -UC Berkeley professor, presidential advisor and Nobel Laureate - has died at 86 BERKELEY-- Nobel Laureate Glenn Theodore Seaborg, one of the great chemists of the 20th century and an influential voice on national science policy as advisor to 10 U.S. presidents, died last night, Feb. 25, at his home in Lafayette, Calif. He was 86. Seaborg died of complications from a stroke he suffered on August 24 while attending the American Chemical Society meeting in Boston. A beloved professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, for nearly 60 years, he also served as chancellor of the UC Berkeley campus and since 1971 was associate director-at-large of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (See obituary at LBNL's web site.) In 1961, President John F. Seaborg was one of the most revered chemists in the world. In June 1998, he was named one of the "Top 75 Distinguished Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise" by readers of Chemical & Engineering News magazine. "The world today has lost a great man of science. Services for Seaborg are pending.
Sensory processing sensitivity Personality trait of highly sensitive people Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a temperamental or personality trait involving "an increased sensitivity of the central nervous system and a deeper cognitive processing of physical, social, and emotional stimuli".[2] The trait is characterized by "a tendency to 'pause to check' in novel situations, greater sensitivity to subtle stimuli, and the engagement of deeper cognitive processing strategies for employing coping actions, all of which is driven by heightened emotional reactivity, both positive and negative".[3] According to the Arons and colleagues, people with high SPS make up about 15–20% of the population.[2] Although some researchers consistently related high SPS to negative outcomes,[3][5] other researchers have associated it with increased responsiveness to both positive and negative influences.[6][7][8][9] Aron and colleagues state that the high-SPS personality trait is not a disorder.[10][11] Earlier research[edit]
Acid compilation (LSD) Berkeley and the Bomb “Now I have an idea that you will like California and California will like you,” University of California, Berkeley, physicist Raymond Birge wrote to Yale professor Ernest Lawrence in early 1928. Lawrence, a lanky, garrulous South Dakotan, was at the time one of the country’s most promising young physicists, and Birge was eager to fill Berkeley’s grand new physics building with talent. Birge knew that Berkeley, still a relatively obscure public university, could not offer Yale’s prestige, so he wooed Lawrence with promises of rapid advancement and generous funding: Berkeley was less constrained by tradition than its East Coast rivals, and the military contributions of its chemists and engineers during World War I had enriched it with government grants. Lawrence, who was impatient for research money and the authority to spend it, was convinced by Birge’s pitch, and he accepted Berkeley’s offer in the spring of 1928. Lawrence, it seems, never closed these divides.
Gray's biopsychological theory of personality The biopsychological theory of personality is a model of the general biological processes relevant for human psychology, behavior, and personality. The model, proposed by research psychologist Jeffrey Alan Gray in 1970, is well-supported by subsequent research and has general acceptance among professionals.[1] Gray hypothesized the existence of two brain-based systems for controlling a person's interactions with their environment: the behavioural inhibition system (BIS) and the behavioural activation system (BAS).[2][3][4] BIS is related to sensitivity to punishment and avoidance motivation. History[edit] The biopsychological theory of personality is similar to another one of Gray's theories, reinforcement sensitivity theory. Gray had a lot of support for his theories and experimented with animals to test his hypotheses.[10] Using animal subjects allows researchers to test whether different areas of the brain are responsible for different learning mechanisms. Compare and contrast[edit]
This is your brain. This is your brain on LSD Cue the Steppenwolf, man, because we’ve got some heavy news to lay on you. Scientists have published the first images of what the human brain looks like under the influence of LSD, one of the most powerful drugs ever created. What’s more, the new study by Imperial College London explores what researchers say are potential medical uses for the illegal psychedelic known as acid, including treating mental health disorders. Heavy, right? “For brain researchers, studying how psychedelic drugs such as LSD alter the ‘normal’ brain state is a way to study the biological phenomenon that is consciousness,” David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist at Imperial College London and senior researcher on the study, told the science journal Nature. “We ultimately would also like to see LSD deployed as a therapeutic tool.” Nutt told England’s The Guardian that neuroscientists have waited 50 years for this breakthrough. “This is to neuroscience what the Higgs boson was to particle physics,” he said.
Gilman Hall University of California, Berkeley - National Historic Chemical Landmark Biography of Gilbert Newton Lewis G. N. Lewis was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1875, but spent much of his youth in Lincoln, Nebraska. Lewis was not satisfied with the research atmosphere at Harvard. When Lewis came to Berkeley in 1912, his first laboratories were in a temporary wooden building. At times, Lewis spent his weekdays on campus, using a small bedroom and shower in a Gilman Hall attic room, while his family lived in the country. Lewis was rarely in the classroom, but his weekly research seminar set the standard for the College of Chemistry. G. Harold C. Responding to the increased popularity of the field of photochemistry in the 1930s, Lewis published, with Melvin Calvin, a long review of the theory of color.
Vittorio Gallese Vittorio Gallese is professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, Italy, and was professor in Experimental Aesthetics at the University of London, UK (2016-2018). He is an expert in neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, social neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. Gallese is one of the discoverers of mirror neurons. His research attempts to elucidate the functional organization of brain mechanisms underlying social cognition, including action understanding, empathy, language, mindreading and aesthetic experience. Background[edit] Vittorio Gallese, MD, studied medicine at the University of Parma, Parma, Italy, and was awarded a degree in Neurology in 1990. Gallese has been doing research at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, at the Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Embodied simulation theory and mirror neurons[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]