Journal of Psychopharmacology
May 1, 2007
Karsten Heekeren, Anna Neukirch, Jörg Daumann et al.
49 citations
Patients with schizophrenia exhibit diminished prepuLse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle reflex and deficits in the attentional moduLation of PPI. Pharmacological challenges with hallucinogens are used as models for psychosis in both humans and animals. RemarkabLy, in contrast to the findings in schizophrenic patients and in animal hallucinogen modeLs of psychosis, previous studies with...
Addiction
December 20, 2006
Robert S. Gable
240 citations
ABSTRACT Aim To extend previous reviews by assessing the acute systemic toxicity and psychological hazards of a dimethyltryptamine and β‐carboline brew (ayahuasca/hoasca) used in religious ceremonies. Method A systematic literature search, supplemented by interviews with ceremony participants. Results No laboratory animal models were located that tested the acute toxicity or the abuse potential...
The British Journal of Psychiatry
June 1, 2005
Ben Sessa
97 citations
Psychedelic or hallucinogenic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), 3, 4, 5-trimethoxy-β-phenethylamine (mescaline), psilocybin, 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamph-etamine (MDMA), N, N-dimethyltrypta-mine (DMT) and their relations occur in abundance throughout the natural world, and have been used by humankind for thousands of years.
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
October 15, 2004
Nicholas Weiss, Lee Jones, John Chamberlain
33 citations
Article AbstractBecause this piece does not have an abstract, we have provided for your benefit the first 3 sentences of the full text.Sir: Psychosis due to sleep deprivation has been frequently reported.1 In hallucinogen use, however, the duration of sleep deprivation is usually limited to a few days, and psychosis is attributed to the direct effects of the hallucinogens on the central nervous...
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
March 19, 2004
Hans H Maurer, Thomas Kræmer, Dietmar Springer et al.
147 citations
Designer drugs of the amphetamine type (eg, MDMA, MDEA, MDA), of the new benzyl or phenyl piperazine type (eg, BZP, MDBP, mCPP, TFMPP, MeOPP), or of the pyrrolidinophenone type (eg, PPP, MOPPP, MDPPP, MPPP, MPHP) have gained popularity and notoriety as rave drugs. These drugs produce feelings of euphoria and energy and a desire to socialize. Although in the corresponding drug scene designer...
Behavioural Pharmacology
March 1, 2004
William E Fantegrossi, James H Woods, Gail Winger
99 citations
Relatively few studies have assessed the reinforcing effects of hallucinogenic compounds, and no such studies have attempted to engender contingent responding for these compounds in animals with behavioral histories that include experience with serotonergically mediated reinforcing effects. The objectives of the present study were to investigate the capacity of several hallucinogenic compounds...
British and Irish Orthoptic Journal
2004
Alison Firth
13 citations
Aim: To highlight the changes that may take place in the visual system of the class A drug abuser.Methods: A literature review was carried out of ocular/visual sequelae of the more common class A drugs. These include stimulants (cocaine and crack cocaine), narcotics (heroin, morphine, methadone) and hallucinogenics (ecstasy, lysergic acid diethylamide, magic mushrooms, mescaline,...
Emergency Medicine News
December 1, 2003
Leon Gussow
A 25-year-old man was brought to the emergency department from a late-night dance club. A friend reported that the patient commonly used designer drugs that he purchased over the Internet. While at the club, he started to vomit and experience visual hallucinations. He had no previous medical history and took no prescription medications. On searching the patient's clothing, medical staff found...
Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
December 31, 2001
Franz X. Vollenweider
127 citations
This review focuses on recent brain imaging and behavioral studies of sensory gating functions, which assess similarities between the effects of classic hallucinogens (eg, psilocybin), dissociative anesthetics (eg, ketamine), and entactogens (eg, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA]) in humans. Serotonergic hallucinogens and psychotomimetic anesthetics produce overlapping psychotic...
Choice Reviews Online
March 1, 2001
52 citations
Through a series of close, fascinating examinations of writing on drugs via, among others, Coleridge on opium, Freud on cocaine, Michaux on mescaline, and Burroughs on all of them, Writing on Drugs combines literary criticism with both socio-cultural history and pharmacological science to show how and why drugs have so thoroughly invaded modernity in ways precise and various, profound and...