SUBJECTIVE EFFECTDefinition: sourced draft

Altered perception

Changes in the character of sensory experience.

Reported experience

1 observations

These qualitative descriptions preserve the reported direction and setting. They do not assign a universal intensity score.

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Variable

Perceptual alteration

Human antagonist experiments support serotonin-receptor involvement in changes to perception and experience; no intensity score is assigned. Source

Evidence type
Human research
Population
Healthy volunteers in an acute antagonist experiment
Exposure
Psilocybin with pharmacological pretreatment in a controlled setting
Instrument
Acute subjective assessment; exact scale not assessed
Reported magnitude
Not established

Connections & claims

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Linked substances

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Tagged articles and participants in the relationships above. A shared tag alone does not establish a causal effect.

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Definition sources

Supporting reading for this original editorial definition. Independent editorial review has not been recorded.

Observation & claim sources

  1. Human antagonist experiment · 1998

    Psilocybin induces schizophrenia-like psychosis in humans via a serotonin-2 agonist action

    Vollenweider et al.

    Antagonist pretreatment supported a role for serotonin receptors in acute effects.

    Limitation Historical terminology and an acute laboratory experiment do not establish a model of schizophrenia or a therapeutic mechanism.

    Funding / disclosures Not assessed; consult the original disclosure.

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