Researchers are investigating whether the drug could be used in mainstream medicine—with and without its hallucinatory ...

A new study explores how LSD could influence the way the brain processes pain, breaking new ground for research The results revealed significant differences in how the brain processed pain under the ...

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) ...

THE psychedelic era of the 1960s is remembered for its music, its art and, of course, its drugs. Its science is somewhat further down the list. But before the rise of the counterculture, researchers ...

What exactly happens to the brain on psychedelic drugs? A small new study, published in the journal Current Biology, peeked inside the brains of 15 people during an acid trip and found brain-scan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Swiss scientists broke a four-decade-long informal ban on LSD research yesterday when they announced the results of a study in which cancer patients received the drug to curb their anxiety about death ...

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 ...

Lysergic acid dyethylamide, which you probably know as LSD, has been put to various uses since its discovery in the 1930s: scientists have tried to treat mental illness; the CIA attempted to control ...

The album was released 50 years ago, just as the drug crossed from research to recreation Half a century ago—when the Beatles album Revolver was released on Aug. 5, 1966, in the U.K.—John Lennon ended ...