Occasional use of classic psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin is not associated with cognitive decline and might actually be ...

Psychedelic rock needed time and money to find form and become the genre we know and love today. Politics provided a helping ...

In recent years, strides have been made in better understanding the potential benefits of psychedelics for mental health conditions. However, most of these substances are still classified as Schedule ...

There is no one song that “started” the psychedelic rock movement of the 1960s. It was a natural evolution and a response to what rock music had delivered thus far. However, one can’t deny that these ...

Psychedelics such as ketamine, psilocybin, MDMA, LSD, mescaline, and ibogaine produce alterations to sensory, self, time, and space perception “so alien to everyday experience that they shed new light ...

There’s a resurgence in psychedelics, banned in the U.S. since 1970 by the federal Controlled Substances Act. That law, signed by then-President Richard Nixon, halted what had been promising research ...

When the earliest humans searched for answers about the less-than physical world evidenced by their dreams, they turned to hallucinogens and music. Psychedelics are so closely linked to dreaming that ...

In November 2021, when the psychedelics company Compass Pathways released the top-line results of its trial looking at psilocybin in patients with treatment-resistant depression, the stock of the ...

The role of serendipity in medical discovery is well known, including in psychiatry, in which it accounts for the discovery of most current major drug categories. This principle extends to ketamine ...

There are two types of tedious advocates for psychedelics: the sanctimonious spiritual type and the sanctimonious scientist type (who is defensive about being mistaken for being the spiritual type).

Interested in giving psychedelic therapy a go? It will probably look something like this: In a room of muted colors, you’ll swallow a dose of a psychedelic drug, then lie back on a futon. Gentle music ...

A new survey from VeryWellMind found 45 percent of Americans support legalizing some psychedelic substances for the treatment of a mental health condition — if they are administered under supervision ...