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PRESENT-DAY advances in psychotherapy have added impetus to investigations into the actions of drugs which affect the central nervous system and thus cause changes in behaviour patterns. One such psychomimetic agent, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), exerts both peripheral and central actions1. Some of these effects in various animals and humans are nausea, vertigo, hyperhydrosis, hypersalivation, mydriasis, vasodilation or vasospasm, hypotension or hypertension, bradycardia or tachycardia, and changes in the white blood cell count2.
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ROSEN, E., IOVINO, A. Effects of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide on the Nesting Behaviour of Male Pigeons. Nature 197, 614–615 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197614b0
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