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Further Observations on the Effects of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

W. Mayer-Gross
Affiliation:
From the Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries
W. McAdam
Affiliation:
From the Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries
J. W. Walker
Affiliation:
From the Department of Clinical Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries

Extract

In previous communications (1951, 1952) we have shown that lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), a drug which has a remarkable psychological effect in minute oral doses, also has an effect on carbohydrate metabolism resulting in an increased concentration of hexosemonophosphate in the blood. This observation has been confirmed by Cornforth and Long (1952). What was less clear from the experiments in mentally healthy subjects was the relation in time and severity between the psychological symptoms and biochemical changes.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953 

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References

Cornforth, J. W., and Long, D. A., Lancet, 1952, i, 950.Google Scholar
Mayer-Gross, W., McAdam, W., and Walker, J. W., Nature, London, 1951, 168, 827.Google Scholar
Iidem, Der Nervenarzt, 1952, 1, 30.Google Scholar
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