Amphetamine psychosis and psychotic symptoms

✍ Scribed by David S. Janowsky; Craig Risch

• Book ID: 104786337
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 454 KB
• Volume: 65
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3158
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00491982

✦ Synopsis

Amphetamine psychosis has been considered to be a pharmacologic model of schizophrenia. Fifteen previously reported cases were reviewed in which experimental induction of amphetamine psychosis occurred in nonschizophrenic drug abusers. Seven (possibly ten) cases manifested Schneider's first rank symptoms and all had World Health Organization Present-State Exam symptoms which discriminated schizophrenia. This observation draws further parallels between the phenomenology of amphetamine psychosis and schizophrenic symptoms.