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Altered free associations: Some cognitive effects of DOET (2, 5‐dimethoxy‐4‐ethylamphetamine)
Author(s) -
Weingartner Herbert,
Snyder Solomon H.,
Faillace Louis A.,
Markley Herbert
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830150402
Subject(s) - amphetamine , cognition , association (psychology) , perception , psychology , drug , neuroscience , psychiatry , psychotherapist , dopamine
Normal adult males were administered DOET (2, 5‐dimethoxy‐4‐ethylamphetamine) and d ‐amphetamine, at two separate times in a double blind experimental design. DOET in low doses (1.5 mg/70 kg) produced no gross behavioral or perceptual design. DOET did alter S s' free associations at the time of maximal drug uptake. S s produced lower frequency, less common, free associations with DOET . Although the associations S s produced with DOET occur less frequently in association norms they were neither bizarre or idiosyncratic responses. In addition, these free associations were at least as reproducible as the associations produced under no drug or amphetamine conditions. This new psychotropic agent, in low doses, appears to be particularly effective in altering normal cognition without producing disorganization in thinking or perception.