Sentences with phrase «of amphetamine psychosis»

Nevertheless, the evidence in favor of an anti-DA mechanism for the neuroleptics is very strong and does support the contention that increased DA is the mechanism of amphetamine psychosis.

Eschewing the traditional slow - lurcher style of zombie, which always leave you wondering how they could move so slowly yet still keep catching their victims, this lot charge about like a football crowd in the grip of amphetamine psychosis, teeming down streets, over walls and up staircases.

Not exact matches

Dopamine supersensitivity occurs in schizophrenia and other psychoses, and after hippocampal lesions, antipsychotics, ethanol, amphetamine, phencyclidine, gene knockouts of Dbh (dopamine

On the basis of neurophysiologic evidence, it would appear that DA mediates the euphoria and the acute paranoid psychosis in abusers as well as the activation of schizophrenia, since all are more sensitive to d - amphetamine.

However, other types of evidence suggest a dopaminergic basis for amphetamine - induced psychosis.