A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to ...

A new study in Communications Biology provides evidence that a psychedelic drug induces a hybrid sleep-wake state in active mice. This unusual brain activity suggests a potential mechanism for how ...

Your article about DMT and ayahuasca as a cure for depression (“Psychedelic in ayahuasca shows promise against depression”, Report, February 17) reminded me of when I was introduced to DMT in 1966 by ...

Over the last few years, evidence has piled up that psychedelic drugs can provide relatively rapid relief from the symptoms of clinical depression. The drugs seemingly work by boosting the brain’s ...

A powerful psychedelic, best known for its intense but brief effects, may offer a new way to treat depression. In a Phase 2 clinical trial at Imperial College London, a single intravenous dose of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an early clinical trial, a single dose of a short-acting psychedelic drug led to rapid improvement in people with major ...

One person’s recreational drug trip might be another’s mental health boost. Research out today finds that dimethyltryptamine, better known as DMT, could be effective at treating people’s depression.

New research published in European Neuropsychopharmacology provides evidence that the psychedelic brew ayahuasca can facilitate the extinction of severe, trauma-like fear memories in rats. The ...

A master meditator has spent 15 years learning to quiet his sense of self – and brain scans suggest he achieved a similarly altered state with a powerful psychedelic. “There seems to be, with that low ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Everyone knows it's cold it is outside. The entire Philadelphia region has remained below freezing for the seventh day in a row, with little relief in sight. But we are tapping ...

A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving. A number of startups and university teams that are building “AI scientists” ...