Scientists are learning more about how psychedelic mushrooms may alter the brain, potentially leading to long-lasting ...

The psychedelic substance psilocybin has long been known for its ability to alter perception and cognition, often leaving ...

PSYCHEDELIC drugs might still invoke images of The Beatles, Woodstock and flower power – but one day they could be prescribed ...

The patient reportedly amputated his own penis with an axe after ingesting a hefty dose of psychedelic mushrooms.

Amid mounting efforts to legalize psychedelic drugs, UC Berkeley researchers will use neuroimaging to observe how psilocybin alters the brain — the university’s first human study involving a Schedule ...

More recently, psychedelic drugs like psilocybin have had positive effects in patients with treatment-resistant depression. It has been hypothesized these results may be due to a reorganization of ...

While preliminary, the findings align with a growing body of evidence indicating that psychedelic compounds like psilocybin can promote mental health by enhancing the brain's capacity for ...

The small study gave 19 patients a single dose of the psychedelic ingredient psilocybin. Half of patients ceased to be depressed and experienced changes in their brain activity that lasted about ...

Tripping on magic mushrooms may actually free the mind, a new study says. The compounds in the (illegal) mushrooms change the way the brain works. New research suggests that psilocybin ...

A 2014 study was one of the first to attribute this effect to the way psilocybin affects communication across brain networks. In people injected with 2 milligrams of the drug, researchers saw new ...

(New York Times) High-dose psilocybin yielded better treatment responses ... rethink whether addiction should be considered a chronic brain disease. While telemedicine was only used in 13.9% ...