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Smythies' use of the 'Sidman Schedule’ As an Animal Test for Hallucinogenic Drug Effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. M. Beaton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
R. J. Bradley
Affiliation:
New Parameters, Albuqueque, New Mexico
J. R. Smythies
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Universities of Edinburgh and Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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