Comparison of stimulants and hallucinogens on shuttle avoidance in rats.
General pharmacology 1987 W M Davis, H T Hatoum
Rats were trained to a high level of performance of a conditioned avoidance response in a shuttlebox to test effects of several classical stimulants in comparison to a variety of hallucinogens. A previously-reported biphasic pattern of effects of mescaline on shuttle avoidance was replicated and extended to 12 other hallucinogens of both phenylethylamine and indolealkylamine classes. Response...