Increased activation of indirect semantic associations under psilocybin

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1055-1057

  Spitzer, Manfred ^a   Thimm, Markus ^a   Hermle, Leo ^b   Holzmann, Petra ^f   Kovar, Karl Artur ^f   Heimann, Hans ^c   Gouzoulis Mayfrank, Euphrosyne ^d   Kischka, Udo ^e   Schneider, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Psychiatric Hospital Christophsbad   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Neurologische Univ Klin   (Germany)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Experimental psychosis; Hallucinogens; Psilocybin; Psycholinguistics; Semantic priming; Word associations

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; PLACEBO; PSILOCYBINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0029995875     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(95)00418-1     Document Type: Article

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