title: Psychoactive drug research in the Soviet scientific tradition.
abstract: During the past 200 years, Soviet scientists have extensively investigated and evaluated the effects of psychoactive drugs in humans. An examination of the resultant literature provides insight into the four distinct periods that comprise this era of research.
authors.affiliation: Human Brain Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad.
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Spivak
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011600:Psychopharmacology / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000266:history / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012106:Research; D014586:USSR
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs