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Madeline G. Wurst

1 paper in the library · 139 citations · publishing 2018

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DARK Classics in Chemical Neuroscience: Psilocybin

ACS Chemical Neuroscience June 29, 2018 Haden A. Geiger, Madeline G. Wurst, R. Nathan Daniels 139 citations

Psilocybin is found in a family of mushrooms commonly known as "magic mushrooms" that have been used throughout history to induce hallucinations. In the late 1950s Albert Hofmann, of Sandoz Laboratories, identified and synthesized the psychoactive compounds psilocybin and psilocin which are found in psilocybe mushrooms. Psilocybin was marketed by Sandoz as Indocybin for basic...