psychedelic drug
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- noun
- /ˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪk drʌg/
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droga psicodélica
- "You take psychedelic drugs to remember things you knew when you were four years old."
- using psychedelic drugs
- psychedelic drugs to treat
- psychedelic drugs could induce
But I did the psychedelic drug like therapy once, you know, like treatment with like ketamine.
- But I did the psychedelic drug like therapy once, you know, like treatment with like ketamine.
- He also, it was I think quite smart in saying, look, there's a whole world of psychedelic drugs that are powerful in influencing the mind.
- And so if you can do research that can identify biomarkers of the effects of the psychedelic drug, that's that's one area that we're interesting.
- And amazing because this is the first known occurrence of a psychedelic drug from an animal source.
- But these guys may be the ones who actually deschedule or, or, you know, unschedule psychedelic drugs.
Examples
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Do you think use of psychedelic drugs like mushrooms or LSD is a legitimate way to gain religious or personal insight?
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Recent research suggests fascinating connections between the effects of the psychedelic drug psilocybin and personality traits related to inner experience.
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The psychedelic drug market is big these days.
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All of you have previous experiences with psychedelic drugs, some extensive experience.
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Unsurprisingly, psychedelic drugs play an important role.
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She believes the psychedelic drug can affect the brain's levels of glutamate, the main excitatory neurotransmitter.
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In the 1960s, many popular musicians experimented with psychedelic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and this apparently influenced their music.
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Aldous Huxley also made an early connection between the effects experienced by those partaking of psychedelic drugs and the experiences of Eastern mysticism, and this set the consciousness-raising bomb off with a bang!
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There is evidence that individual differences in absorption are associated with particular neurotransmitter receptors that are acted upon by psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin, which might explain why absorption-prone people are more responsive to the drug's effects.
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Researchers are studying how psychedelic drugs can enhance creativity and therapeutic outcomes.
Synonyms
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8.1
A drug that makes people see, hear, or feel things that are not real
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A substance that makes you see or hear things that are not real
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7.9
A drug that makes people see or feel things that are not real
A drug that makes a person see or hear things that are not there and think strangely
How Mind-Altering
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is fully compositional: 'psychedelic' means causing vivid hallucinations or altered perception and 'drug' denotes a chemical taken for effect, so a B1 learner who knows both words can directly infer 'a drug that causes hallucinations/strong perceptual changes'. The adjective+noun pattern is a standard, cross-linguistically common construction, making the meaning immediately derivable from its parts.
Etymology
Psychedelic drug The word psychedelic was made from Greek words meaning 'mind' and 'to show', like psyche and delos, so it pictures the mind becoming visible. That's why a psychedelic drug is a drug that makes strong changes in how you see, feel, or think.