Juergen Seifert

The pharmacology of psilocybin

Addiction Biology October 1, 2002 Torsten Passie, Juergen Seifert, Udo Schneider et al. 465 citations

Abstract Psilocybin (4‐phosphoryloxy‐N,N‐dimethyltryptamine) is the major psychoactive alkaloid of some species of mushrooms distributed worldwide.These mushrooms represent a growing problem regarding hallucinogenic drug abuse. Despite its experimental medical use in the 1960s, only very few pharmacological data about psilocybin were known until recently. Because of its still growing capacity...