Blossom Pulse Archive

What happened in psychedelic research in 1952

2 events from 1952, dated by when they happened rather than when we logged them. Papers as they published, trials starting and finishing, programme milestones, and the news coverage around them, grouped by week.

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Week of 28 January 1952

  • This early clinical study (1952) investigated the effects of mescaline (0.4 -; 0.6g) and LSD (10-120μg) in patients with schizophrenia (n=59 & 21) and found that it aggravated their symptoms and made their psychic integration even more disorganized compared to healthy individuals.

    MescalinePsilocybinLSDSchizophreniaHealthy Volunteers

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Week of 31 December 1951

  • Open-label phenomenological characterization study of LSD effects in 23 subjects (4 normal staff volunteers and 19 psychiatric inpatients) at the University of Manchester, UK. A total of 58 oral LSD administrations were given across a wide dose range (10–600 µg). The study documents perceptual, mood, ego, cognitive, and autonomic effects; 6 subjects showed prolonged clinical changes.

    LSD

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