Psilocybin as a discriminative stimulus: Lack of specificity in an animal behavior model for ?hallucinogens?
Psychopharmacology February 1, 1982 Jon Koerner, James B. Appel 19 citations
Fifteen rats were trained to discriminate between the tryptamine hallucinogen psilocybin (4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine; 1.0 mg/kg) and saline in a two-lever choice task. Dose-response and time-response curves were obtained. The psilocybin cue generalized to psilocin (the dephosphorylated congener of psilocybin) and to the prototypical indoleamine hallucinogen LSD, but not to the...