Nature 225, 651 - 652 (14 February 1970); doi:10.1038/225651a0

Investigation of p-Methoxyamphetamine Excretion in Amphetamine Induced Psychosis

B. M. ANGRIST, J. W. SCHWEITZER, A. J. FRIEDHOFF & S. GERSHON

Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York.

MANY differences exist between the symptoms of schizophrenia and those of drug-induced states caused by agents like LSD or mescaline¹. Amphetamine psychosis, by contrast, can in some cases replicate virtually all of the manifestations of natural schizophrenic illness²⁻⁵. Such a correspondence justifies a study of the biochemical basis of this condition.

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