UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids—the building blocks of ...

As he began the brain scan, neurologist Dr. Nico Dosenbach wasn’t sure if he’d been given a psychedelic or a placebo as part of a new clinical trial that would capture how the brain works on ...

From Aha! moments to scientific discovery, learn how altered states can open cognitive space for new ideas—and why that ...

(CNN) — Shrooms, Alice, tweezes, mushies, hongos, pizza toppings, magic mushrooms — everyday lingo for psychedelic mushrooms seems to grow with each generation ...

Scientists tracked changes in brain activity after people took a large dose of psilocybin, finding clues on how the psychedelic drug might help treat depression. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers got ...

This heat map of brain activity patterns shows profound disturbance during an individual’s experience after taking psilocybin. Relatively stable patterns before and after the dose (blue and green hues ...

This brain on psilocybin is at the peak of activity, showing how much of the brain reconnects to different pathways than prior to the experience. The most active areas of reconnection are seen in red ...

Fingerprints have long been the hallmark of individual identity — the loops, whorls, and arches combined into an uncommon, unique pattern. It turns out we have a similar unique signature in our brains ...

(CNN) — Shrooms, Alice, tweezes, mushies, hongos, pizza toppings, magic mushrooms — everyday lingo for psychedelic mushrooms seems to grow with each generation. Yet leading mycologist Paul Stamets ...

This brain on psilocybin is at the peak of activity, showing how much of the brain reconnects to different pathways than prior to the experience. The most active areas of reconnection are seen in red ...