The Pharmacology of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: A Review
CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics November 11, 2008 Torsten Passie, John H. Halpern, Dirk O. Stichtenoth et al. 459 citations
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was synthesized in 1938 and its psychoactive effects discovered in 1943. It was used during the 1950s and 1960s as an experimental drug in psychiatric research for producing so‐called “experimental psychosis” by altering neurotransmitter system and in psychotherapeutic procedures (“psycholytic” and “psychedelic” therapy). From the mid 1960s, it became an illegal...