Nicotine, the Perfect Psychotropic? Dr. Paul Newhouse : 494
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
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Is Nikotinic Stimulation a Modulatory System?
Nicotinic receptors act like gain enhancers, right? So they modulate the gain of a particular chemical event. If you stimulate a nicotenic receptor that's sitting pre synaptically, or sort of in the end of an axon, and you get more bang for your buck when a signal comes along. And so what we think it can do is amplify an already existing signal.
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