“…Somatic and more general aspects MDMA often has the reputation of being a relatively benign drug (Iversen 2006;Nutt 2006), but in psychophysiological terms, it is a powerful CNS stimulant and metabolic stressor (Darvesh and Gudelsky 2005;Downing 1986;Huether et al 1997;Parrott 2002Parrott , 2006Parrott , 2007a. Baylen and Rosenberg (2006) listed the following somatic effects of acute MDMA: nausea, jaw clenching, teeth grinding, headache, body temperature changes, accelerated heartbeat, muscle aches, fatigue, dizziness, vertigo, dry mouth, thirst, energy, sweating, numbness, tingling skin, ataxia, unsteadiness, tics, tremors, restlessness, agitation, and nystagmus.…”