Topic: serotonergic pathway

Psychedelic compounds act upon the serotonergic pathway to generate altered states of consciousness and disrupt normal sensory processing, creating profound perceptual disturbances including visual hallucinations. While psychedelics have recently garnered much attention for their cognitive and therapeutic effects, how psychedelics disrupt sensory processing to evoke hallucinations is not as well characterized. Furthermore, while initial studies have investigated how psychedelics alter visual responses during head-fixation, nothing is known about how they might alter visual processing during ac