Batrachotoxins in beetles and birds: Dumbacher et al. (2004).
Curare and many other aspects of Amazonian ethnobotany are beautifully
described in Davis (1996), an extraordinary book about Richard Evans
Schultes (1915-2001), a great ethnobotanist and explorer of the Amazon
jungle.Chapter 9
A molecular explanation of the differing agonist activities of nicotine in the
central nervous system and at the neuromuscular junction can be found in
Xiu, Puskar, Shanata, Lester, and Dougherty (2009).
“To fathom hell or soar angelic”: Huxley (1977, p. 107).
The story of LSD, as told by its discoverer: Hofmann (1979/1980).
Connections among LSD, serotonin, and brain neurochemistry were proposed
by Woolley and Shaw (1954).
Wasson (1957) describes R. Gordon Wasson’s introduction to the shamanic
use of Psilocybe mushrooms in the mountains of Mexico.
Neurochemistry of psychedelics: Nichols (2004).
Chapter 10
“In my inmost heart”: Santiago Ramén y Cajal’s description of the axonal
growth cone is from the English translation of his autobiography, Ramén y
Cajal (1917/1937, pp. 364 and 368-369).
Cytoskeletal dynamics in axon growth cones: Lowery and Van Vactor (2009).
Anesthesia pharmacology and microtubules: Hameroff (2006), Craddock et
al. (2012), and Emerson et al. (2013).
Roger Sperry’s classic experiments on recovery of vision in salamanders
and frogs after severing of the optic nerve and rotating the eyeball: Sperry
(1943, 1944).
Sperry’s chemoaffinity hypothesis: Sperry (1963).
Neurogenesis in the human hippocampus: Spalding et al. (2013).