Psilocybin is a psychedelic drug with promising clinical applications for treating mood disorders and substance abuse ...

The secret to psychedelic drugs' links to greater empathy and insight may lie in their ability to coax the right hemisphere of the brain into a position of dominance over the left, according to a ...

When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite ...

Neurons activated by the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT light up across an entire hemisphere of the mouse brain. In this 3D image, colors cycle with depth and the tissue has been spatially distorted to mimic ...

If we travelled back 16,500 years to visit North America during the Ice Age, research suggests we would see our ancestors making use of psychedelic mushrooms. From cacti in ancient Mexico to ergot ...

Psychedelic medicine is surging back into favour in 2025, but the very features that make these drugs promising may be the ...

A new advanced imaging study led by scientists from the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London (ICL), has looked at what happens in people's brains when they take the potent ...

In a controlled study, researchers used DMT and watched adults' brain activity change as their usual "sense of self" slipped away.

Chris Cleary is about to become a key player in psychedelic medicine. He’s a mental health nurse, with a doctorate in nursing, who has been tapped by UC Irvine’s Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing to ...

With growing interest in using psychedelic drugs to treat mental health disorders, researchers have explored the effects of a psychedelic derivative of amphetamine on rat brains. They wanted to see ...

On the new episode of "The Readout LOUD": a new top drug regulator, the future of psychedelics, and much more.