Bill Gates once revealed that the same person who challenged his intellect as a teenager also pushed him into experimenting ...

A new clinical trial underway in the Lowcountry is drawing attention for its unconventional — and potentially groundbreaking ...

One drop of LSD can erase your entire sense of being until—interminable hours later—you recapitulate your identity, one puzzle piece at a time. Beyond that and the iconic kaleidoscope visual effects, ...

Diplo ended 2024 on a high — literally. The 46-year-old DJ shocked Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper when he revealed he was tripping on LSD during his virtual appearance on CNN’s New Year’s Eve special.

People have been taking LSD for decades, but experts still don’t know all that much about it, especially when it comes to how it affects your brain. Still, LSD doesn’t appear to kill brain cells. At ...

LSD began with an accident — a chemist absorbed a tiny amount of a compound he barely understood. What followed was a journey that would reshape science, psychology, and global culture for decades.

“The mind—that seven inches of in ner space between the root of the nose and the occiput— our prized possession; its study on every level is most important,” says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen ...

For the first time since the 1970s, researchers are being allowed to study the potential medical properties of the most tightly controlled substances around. But it's not easy. By Shaunacy Ferro ...

The drug, as well as a placebo, was given to 20 healthy volunteers with previous experience taking psychedelics. Their brains were then imaged inside an fMRI scanner to visualize their brain activity.

Lysergic acid diethylamide -- more commonly known as 'LSD' or simply 'acid' -- is one of the longest lasting and most potent hallucinogens, but researchers have never understood why LSD's effects ...