60-Second Mind
60-Second Mind
Scientific American
Experimenting With Drugs
2 minutes Posted Mar 3, 2008 at 12:00 am.
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While at Stanford in the mid-1960s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey started adding a peculiar ingredient to his homemade venison stew--LSD. Now, more than forty years later, the psychedelic pioneer's beloved drug is giving neuroscientists new clues about what causes schizophrenic psychosis.