Respect Quote by James Lee Anderson

“single- and multiple-dose pharmacokinetics of escitalopram are linear and dose-proportional in a dose range of 10 to 30 mg/day.”

— James Lee Anderson

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the…

— Timothy Leary

Turmeric is good for the brain.

— June Brown

“Drugs literally dominate the brain because the brain doesn’t have an adequate defense against drugs.”

— Michael Kuhar

“drugs that decrease “serotonergic tone” (i.e., decreasing serotonin levels or sensitivity to serotonin) increase impulsive aggression; raising the tone does the opposite. This generates…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers;…

— William S. Burroughs

“Glutamate signaling works in a fancier way that is essential to learning.2 To simplify considerably, while dendritic spines typically contain only one type of…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the…

— Daniel J. Siegel

Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

— Irving Kirsch

“You have done something to your brain. You have made it high. If I lay 10 mls of diazepam on you, it will do…

— Bruce Robinson

Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't…

— Frederick Lenz

“Its extremely potent active ingredient is an opioid called oxycodone, synthesized from the raw material of opium. The substance was a hot topic among…

— Norman Ohler