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Muscimol Effects and Side Effects

Case study

  • Emily's friends ate mushrooms
  • After 30 minutes they began salivating, perspirating heavily they began to have stomach cramps, vomiting and diarrhea, trouble breathing, this lasted for 2 hours
  • Hallucination and drunken behavior which lasted for 4 hours
  • They then recovered quickly
  • They identify the mushroom as fly agaric known as Amanita muscaria.

Side Effects

Dont eat it!!

  • Hallucinations
  • muscular jerking
  • Drowsiness
  • Salivating
  • Nausea
  • Stomach cramps
  • Many more

Pharmacology

What is Muscimol?

  • structurally similar to GABA
  • GABAA Agonist
  • Alters neural activity in multiple regions
  • Causes for an inhibitory effect
  • Psychoactive constituent of Amanitia muscaria
  • produced naturally in mushroom
  • effects of intoxication
  • found in layer below the skin
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