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The Effects of Meprobamate on Time Perception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

C. G. Costello
C. G. Costello*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry (Maudsley Hospital), University of London
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The change in time perception produced by the administration of drugs has received a fair amount of attention. Frankenhaeuser (6) has reviewed the work on the effects of hashish and mescaline intoxication on the estimation of time. She concludes that “there seems to be some agreement in that time seems longer than usual in passing but shorter when regarded in retrospect”. But this work dealt with introspective reports regarding the passage of time rather than with quantitative changes and will not be discussed further here.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 107 , Issue 446 , January 1961 , pp. 67 - 73
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1961 

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