Depression is a highly prevalent mental health condition. Because many patients fail to respond to standard therapies, there is a pressing need for alternative approaches. Recently, administration of ...

Two recent studies conducted by scientists at the University Health Network and the University of Toronto provide new ...

A growing body of neuroscience research is converging on a counterintuitive idea: the disorderly brain activity triggered by LSD might actually work against the hyper-synchronized neural firing that ...

Scientists have long known that psychedelics like LSD can help the brain grow new connections. These drugs promote something called neuroplasticity, which helps the brain heal from mental illness. But ...

Source: By IndependentOo, Dominik from Germany, Maximilian IV, Laitche, NASA; composite artwork by Belbury - CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Working in his lab at the pharmaceutical company Sandoz in 1938, ...

A single dose of the psychedelic drug LSD may ease generalized anxiety disorder for months, a clinical trial has found. The trial results, published Thursday (Sept. 4) in JAMA, include data from 194 ...

Microdosing psychedelics refers to the practice of taking tiny amounts of drugs such as LSD or magic mushrooms. Some people claim that microdosing brings them benefits such as improved mood, focus or ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Researchers have developed a groundbreaking version of LSD that retains the drug's brain-healing benefits without the mind-altering effects. The team at the University of California, ...

One person’s acid trip could be another person’s anxiety therapy. That’s the tantalizing upshot from a new study that showed LSD may have the potential to alleviate anxiety. The findings are just the ...

About a decade ago, many media outlets—including WIRED—zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection of mental health, drug science, and Silicon Valley biohacking: microdosing, or the practice of ...