Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin (the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms”) and mescaline are three of the most widely studied classic psychedelics. Each has a long history of ...

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 ...

For Alexander Shulgin, the twentieth-century biochemist often called the godfather of psychedelics, it all began with mescaline. “The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child,” he ...

DURING the last few years a great revival of interest has occurred in the search for a biochemical basis for schizophrenia and the other types of psychosis. There are several reasons for this. Modern ...

Mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine)—the magical alkaloid found in the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii) and similar cacti—could be the next vital ingredient in psychedelic drug formulations ...

BASEL, Switzerland, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MindMed (Nasdaq: MNMD) (NEO: MMED) (DE: MMQ), a leading clinical stage psychedelic medicine company, announced today the approval by the local Swiss ...

Psilocybin — the main psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms — is the most famous and best-studied psychedelic substance. But beyond psilocybin, there are many other psychedelic compounds, some ...

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 ...

Modern psychologists say we use only one-tenth of our brains. The French philosopher Henri Bergson speculated that the human brain in its full force was capable of knowing all that was afoot in the ...

Three letters, on a drawing of three cubes, appeared not long ago on a fence at the University of Wisconsin with the slogan: YOUR CAMPUS TRAVEL AGENT—ONE TRIP IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS. Just about ...

A newly published study examining the use of psychedelics in non-clinical settings to treat alcoholism is suggesting a great number of individuals see a reduction in problematic alcohol consumption ...

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 ...