“…one would not expect them to have anti-amnesic effects. This seems particularly strange since drugs like d-amphetamine, strychnine and picrotoxin act as anti-amnesics in mice given protein synthesis inhibitors (Barondes and Cohen, 1968;Gibbs, 1976;Flood, Jarvik, Bennett, Orme and Rosenzweig, 1977) and also improve retention of non-inh,bited subjects (McGaugh and Petrinovich, 1965;Breen and McGaugh, 1961;Andry and Luttges, 1971;McGaugh and Krivanek, 1970;Krivanek and McGaugh, 1969;Del Rio, 1971;Castellano, 1974).…”