The Beckley Foundation and its founder and long-time psychedelics researcher Amanda Feilding announced a new research program involving a pioneering study with King's College London and UCL on the ...

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

Would you pay money to support a scientific experiment involving illegal drugs? A group of British scientists started a crowdfunding campaign to raise the remaining 25,000 pounds (about $37,600) ...

When psychological research into LSD ground to a halt in the mid-1970s, after the Nixon administration placed the drug in the most tightly controlled substance category, the ability to take pictures ...

Anyone who’s taken the psychedelic drug LSD (formally known as lysergic acid diethylamide), or had the joy of listening to their favorite relative talk about it during Thanksgiving, knows it can be a ...

LSD will be used to treat people with depression for the first time in the UK. Researchers will investigate whether taking the hallucinogenic in small amounts can fight the disorder. Around 20 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The album was released 50 years ago, just as the drug crossed from research to recreation Half a century ago—when the Beatles ...

LSD usage is on the rise among U.S. adults – especially young adults with depression. And the trend mirrors growing research into the psychedelic drug's ability to treat mental health disorders like ...

Dr Albert Hofmann, a Swiss chemist, first found the effects of LSD or lysergic acid diethylamide or “acid” on the psyche. It has been 75 years since his invention. Now new research finds deeper ...

May didn’t notice much with the first dose of LSD. She felt good, and she got a lot accomplished, and that was all. It was the day after that things really clicked. She felt even better, and she got a ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Psychedelic drugs should be reclassified to encourage new research into their medical applications, a ...

For a couple of freewheeling years, two young Harvard psychologists have carried on wide-ranging experiments with mind-altering drugs. At the university’s Center for Research in Personality, they sent ...