Dimethyltryptamine levels in blood of schizophrenic patients and control subjects
Psychopharmacology January 1, 1976 B. Angrist, S. Gershon, G. Sathananthan et al. 44 citations
A gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric method measured N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in whole blood with a detection limit of 0.05 ng/ml. Mean DMT levels appeared higher in the total group of schizophrenic patients, particularly those with acute psychosis, female patients, and patients scoring 4 or higher on the suspiciousness item of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, but none of these differences reached statistical significance.