In the 1968 counterculture classic “Wild in the Streets,” a musician in his early 20s petitions to lower the voting age in the United States to 14. He quickly becomes president and turns the country ...

I’ve been working in the areas of mental health treatment and neuroscience for over 35 years. But I now believe that we’re on the cusp of a therapeutic revolution because of psychedelics. When certain ...

Recent research has found that individuals who had meaningful psychedelic experiences tended to report increases in moral expansiveness. In other words, the scope of entities (humans, animals, the ...

A new study shows that the use of psilocybin, a compound found in the widely known "magic mushrooms," initiates a pattern of hyperconnectivity in the brain linked to the ego-modifying effects and ...

Individuals in a survey reported greater gratitude, nature relatedness, and nature appreciation after embarking on an ayahuasca retreat experience. The active chemical in ayahuasca is DMT ...

Interest in psychedelics has surged, driven in part by their potential therapeutic applications. However, the mechanisms underlying these benefits remain debated. One perspective, the metaphysical ...

CHANGCHUN, CHINA, 21 October 2025 -- A perspective article published today in Psychedelics by Prof. Xiaohui Wang and colleagues examine how psychedelic substances profoundly reshape our perception of ...

Walk into nearly any headshop, and you’ll see a diverse and brightly-colored assortment of pills, liquids and gummies in neat ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin are now used on a limited basis in the treatment of anxiety and major depressive disorders. Prior to being administered, patients, most of whom report ...