Dr. George K. Aghajanian is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine who conducted pioneering research on the neuropharmacology of psychedelics in the 1970s. He was one of the first researchers who implicated the serotonin system, the 5HT2A receptor, and downstream glutamate release as the mechanism through which LSD produces hallucinations. He applied these insights to uncover the working mechanism of how atypical antipsychotic drugs work and studied how hallucinogens affect the actions of single neurons in the brain for nearly three decades.
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