Psychedelic drugs produce effects on the mind that manifest as an apparent expansion of consciousness often accompanied by hallucinations. Psychedelics, which act as agonists at serotonin 5-HT2A ...

Contradictory findings from a meta-analysis and the EPISODE trial highlight both the promise of psychedelics and ongoing issues with blinding in psychedelic trials.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is advocating for ibogaine, a psychedelic drug he says could treat addiction and mental health ...

Chicago is what I am,” John Hughes once said of his hometown, the centerpiece around the late director and screenwriter’s movies and the base of his trifecta of ’80s films—Sixteen Candles, The ...

A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to "see" images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it.

Scientists want to redesign psychedelics so that they don’t induce a trip—but they still improve mental health.

The psychoactive substance in magic mushrooms appears to have a powerful effect on people trying to stop smoking.

The use of psychedelic substances has intrigued, benefited, and challenged humanity for millennia. These substances, found regularly in nature, are known to induce non-ordinary states of consciousness ...

I found a way to look into the universe,” says non-fiction Australian filmmaker Josef Gatti in his feature debut Phenomena. Paradoxically, it turns out that the wonders of the universe ...

In A Nutshell Researchers used a light-based brain imaging technique in mice to watch, in real time, what happens in the brain during a psychedelic experience and found a specific electrical rhythm ...

Psychedelics appear to reshape how the brain builds reality by dampening incoming visual signals and boosting internal memory networks. Psychedelic compounds act on the brain by binding to serotonin ...