NgCAM processed+raw compressed

Video depicting the flow of transport vesicles containing NgCAM, an axonal protein. (Courtesy of Don Arnold and Sarmad Al-Bassam)

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[Zeromus7]

Suddenly everyone on YouTube is a neuroscience expert.

[Goperoni]

Neat.

[iredmedia]

You sound extremely uneducated. If you believe that, you're stupid. Out of 6 billion people, you think NOBODY remembers their previous incarnation? If these cells were there, and the "cells" held information about our spirit, it'd be assumed that there would be an overlap of some sort at SOME point. Remember, humanity is anything but perfect, and if reincarnation was real, there would be mistakes somewhere along the way, but we haven't seen a single shred of evidence to support any such claim.

[K33p3r99]

It cheated.

[Tomas Avila]

El dmt es luz solar transformada por la glandula pineal en una molecula.

[Tomas Avila]

DMT travels are not only a hallucinations, u must know that if u really investigate.

Si no me crees, viaja al amazonas, busca un shaman , y viaja distorsionando el tiempo al domo, mientras no lo hagas no entenderás ningún concepto sobre el mas aya de una simple mecánica.

La otra forma de hacerlo, es con meditación profunda , la cual te la puede enseñar un lama.

[dragonsaul]

Hallucinogens affect probably other processes too (like thinking /memory /feelings /perception of self /etc.), causing feelings of something that has never been felt before, thoughts that have never been thought before, egodeath, etc. etc.

After all, these serotonin receptors are present in many other regions of the brain too. Of course there might be other receptors, that can be agonized by hallucinogens, involved in these processes too.

[dragonsaul]

My best guess is that when the brain is deprived from sensory data, the regions in brain responsible for sensory processing start to process more and more of that noise coming from "random" activations of single cells/cell groups. These regions try to recognize what does the data mean ---> results in perception of random patterns, objects, sounds, etc.

So a hallucinogen acts on some of these neurons present in these regions ---> cause random activations ---> cause random hallucinations.

[dragonsaul]

Nnnnnope. You see. People can hallucinate even without hallucinogens. Deprivation from sensory data is enough to induce vivid hallucinations, so hallucinogens just probably lower that threshold of hallucinations by acting on certain receptors (like the all so famous 5-HT serotonin receptor).

So that brings us to the question, how do the hallucinations emerge from our brain activity.