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LSD and the Head Twitch Response

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In some mice strained, the head switch is bi-phasic and so it's dose-dependent. It increases like a bell-shaped curve. It reaches a maximum and then it drops off again back to baseline. If you get 10 milligrams of LSD, which would be very high dose, and it goes 100 twitches, say that's the maximum number of twitches you can get. Then if you think of 20 milligrams, it will start to decrease again. And there's actually, I don't know if you know this, but in at least in some mice strained,. the head switch has been shown to increase by up to 50%. But interestingly, Adams looked

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