If incoming serotonin axons were destroyed, LSD would still have its full effects. However, if incoming dopamine axons were destroyed, amphetamine and cocaine would lose their effects. Explain the difference.

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Mattie Stafford

2 April, 03:31

If incoming serotonin axons were destroyed, LSD would still have its full effects. However, if incoming dopamine axons were destroyed, amphetamine and cocaine would lose their effects. Explain the difference.

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Sincere May · Answer 1

LSD is a lysergic acid, hallucinogenic effect drug.

LSD is a drug that gained popularity in the 1960s, its consumption being culturally associated with the psychedelic movement. At the time it was not considered harmful to health, so that doctors even recommended it.

Cocaine is an alkaloid of the tropane group, extracted from plants of the erythroxylaceae family, mainly of the species Erythroxylum coca. Atropine is also part of this group of alkaloids.

Cocaine produces very strong chemical dependency and those who use it are at serious health risk.

Arjun Strickland · Answer 2

Cocaine and Amphetamine release the a certain amount of dopamine into the blood stream with other transmitters. When the neurons are damaged, the presence of cocaine and amphetamine would not be useful.

Explanation:

LSD stimulates the receptors on the postsynaptic membrane