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Patricia M. Whitaker

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Tritiated LSD Binding in Frontal Cortex in Schizophrenia

Archives of General Psychiatry March 1, 1981 Patricia M. Whitaker 126 citations

It has been reported that the binding of tritiated LSD (at 2 or 4 nm) to frontal cortex is reduced in schizophrenia, a finding that has been interpreted as a reduction in the number of serotonin receptors. The present study, however, reveals in a Scatchard analysis of tritiated LSD binding in frontal cortex in the brains of 13 schizophrenic patients that there was no decrease in binding by...