Abstract
LSD (subcutaneous infusion of 125 γ/kg of body weight in 1 ml during 60 min) administered during sleep in rats with implanted electrodes increases the frequency of hippocampal theta activity during paradoxical sleep. Neither the duration of slow wave and paradoxical sleep phases nor the total amount of slow wave and paradoxical sleep was influenced by the drug.
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