Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Kasamatsu and Hirai
- Studied how the neurotransmitter serotonin can effect behavior.
- Studied how sensory deprivation effects behavior.
- Group of monks on a 72-hour
pilgrimage to a holy mountain in Japan.
- During the pilgrimage they do not
consume food or water, did not speak to
each other or themselves and were
exposed to the cold.
- 48-hours in they began to have hallucinations
- Took blood samples of monks before and during the pilgrimage.
- Huge spike of serotonin while have hallucinations.