Five Psychedelics, One Brain Pattern In A Nutshell An international team analyzed brain scans from 267 people across five ...

What do LSD and Psilocybin have in common? A new study reveals a universal brain fingerprint for psychedelic drugs.

The therapeutic significance of a psychedelic session depends in part on the intensity of the mystical experience it produces ...

Different psychedelics create very similar brain pattern activity, giving scientists new insight into potential mental health ...

Over the past two decades, researchers have published study after study evaluating the therapeutic potential of psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD. The research is so promising that despite being ...

Analysis of more than 500 brain scans finds LSD, psilocybin and other psychedelics increase cross-talk between brain systems ...

Mescaline, a natural hallucinogen known since ancient times, was not only a favorite of artists and bohemians but also a mainstay of brain research throughout the first half of the 20th century, until ...

Psychedelic drugs are being investigated as scientific and clinical tools, but the brain mechanisms behind their effects remain unclear. Earlier brain imaging studies in small cohorts from single ...

Prologue : One bright May morning : 3 May 1953 : Hollywood Hills -- Cactus mysteries : 2000 BCE-present : Andean South America -- The Devil's root : 1519-present : Mexico -- Making medicine : 1880-93 ...

PARIS — Mind-blowing drugs are nothing new in French culture. Indeed, Simone de Beauvoir reported in The Prime of Life that Jean-Paul Sartre had a medically supervised mescaline injection in 1935, ...

Like many a researcher before him (including the late great Havelock Ellis), British Psychiatrist John Smythies was fascinated by the extraordinary visions he had after taking mescaline, an alkaloid ...