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Science 3 December 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3701, pp. 1309 - 1310
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3701.1309
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Mescaline, 3,4-Dimethoxyphenylethylamine, and Adrenaline: Sites of Electroencephalographic Arousal

Yuji Takeo 1 and Harold E. Himwich 1

1 Thudichum Psychiatric Research Laboratory, Galesburg State Research Hospital, Galesburg, Illinois 61401

Transections of the brain of rabbit reveal that electroencephalographic arousal produced by injections of adrenaline takes place at the midbrain level, while mescaline and 3,4-dimethoxyphenylethylamine induce such arousal lower in the brainstem, at the medullary level.

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