The room dissolves into a rushing collage of childhood bedrooms, long-forgotten faces and the exact shade of blue from an old ...

For decades, the idea that the human brain might naturally produce the psychedelic compound DMT has attracted considerable ...

Psychedelic substances are increasingly being used under medical supervision to treat anxiety disorders and depression. However, the mechanisms by which these substances influence our perception and ...

The psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT seemed to induce similar patterns of brain activity in a lama - a revered spiritual teacher in ...

Psychedelics can quiet the brain’s visual input system, pushing it to replace missing details with vivid fragments from ...

A new study finds no evidence of naturally occurring DMT or its storage in the serotonin neurons of the rat brain.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As he began the brain scan, neurologist Dr. Nico Dosenbach wasn’t sure if he’d been given a psychedelic or a placebo as part of a ...

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a debilitating mental illness characterized by an obsessive preoccupation with perceived flaws in one's physical appearance. Patients with BDD often have distorted ...

What creates bliss for one is a bad trip to another. New findings help to clarify how psilocybin activates regions of the brain, creating patterns of hyperconnectivity, and why the effects of the ...

(CNN) — Shrooms, Alice, tweezes, mushies, hongos, pizza toppings, magic mushrooms — everyday lingo for psychedelic mushrooms seems to grow with each generation ...

A Phase IIa clinical trial finds that a single, brief dose of DMT (from ayahuasca) provides rapid and lasting relief for depression.