"MODEL PSYCHOSIS" PRODUCED BY INHALATION OF GASOLINE FUMES
American Journal of Psychiatry February 1, 1964 DOI: 10.1176/ajp.120.8.757 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Case study Case report Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 2 |
| Population | Two teenage boys with maladjusted and impulsive personalities |
| Intervention | gasoline inhalation |
| Topics | LSD Mescaline Psilocybin |
| Keywords | Psychosis Inhalation Hallucinogen Perception Anesthesia |
| Citations | 37 |
| Key findings | Gasoline inhalation can produce a toxic psychosis with autonomic, perceptual, and affective symptoms that parallel the 'model psychoses' induced by mescaline, LSD-25, and psilocybin. |
Abstract
Two teen-age cases of toxic psychosis associated with gasoline inhalation are described and compared with the so-called "model psychoses" evoked by mescaline, LSD =25 and psilocybin. The symptoms were predominantly autonomic, perceptual and affective. The perceptual experiences included much personnally significant symbolic content. The inhaling of gasoline quickly became a tempting recurrent activity in the case of these two boys with maladjusted and impulsive personalities.
Comparable studies
Other case reports and case series on mescaline, most cited first.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Parkinsonism after Taking Ecstasy 29-year-old man | 1999 | Case study | n = 1 |
| Methylenedioxyamphetamine. Clinical description of overdose, death, and review of pharmacology A patient with methylenedioxyamphetamine intoxication | 1981 | Case study | n = 1 |
| A New Hallucinogen: 3,4,5-Trimethoxyphenyl-β-Aminopropane | 1955 | Case study | |
| Peyote and mescaline exposures: a 12-year review of a statewide poison center database Patients who used peyote or mescaline and required treatment | 2010 | Case series | |
| A Mescaline Associated Fatality A single deceased individual under the influence of mescaline | 1985 | Case study | n = 1 |