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- HALLUCINATION:
- The experience of seeing, feeling, hearing, smelling, or tasting something that is not really there.
- PSYCHOSIS:
- A severe mental disorder characterized by the loss of the ability to distinguish what is objectively real from what is imaginary, frequently including hallucinations.
- PSYCHOTROPIC:
- A substance that affects a person's ability to distinguish reality from the imaginary.
- RECEPTOR:
- A specialized part of a nerve cell that recognizes neurotransmitters and communicates with other nerve cells.
- SEROTONIN:
- An important neurotransmitter in the brain that regulates mood, appetite, sensory perception, and other central nervous system functions.
- SHAMAN:
- A religious leader of a tribe who performs rituals of magic, divination, and healing, and acts as an intermediary between ordinary reality and the spirit world; a medicine man.
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