A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to produce vivid hallucinations, even when a person’s eyes are closed. Studies ...

Psychedelic-assisted therapy is the subject of renewed focus. It involves using psilocybin—a substance found in psychoactive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bettmann via Getty Images In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful ...

LSD usage is on the rise among U.S. adults – especially young adults with depression. And the trend mirrors growing research into the psychedelic drug's ability to treat mental health disorders like ...

BIRMINGHAM, England — Half a century after Timothy Leary urged the world to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” there’s a surge of interest in lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The psychedelic drug was ...

One person’s acid trip could be another person’s anxiety therapy. That’s the tantalizing upshot from a new study that showed LSD may have the potential to alleviate anxiety. The findings are just the ...

Texas is helping shape the future of psychedelic therapies. Here’s how they work and what access could look like.

Bicycle Day, celebrated annually on April 19, commemorates the world’s first recorded LSD trip, in 1943. That’s when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested lysergic acid diethylamide before bicycling ...

LSD reduced symptoms of anxiety in a midstage study published Thursday, paving the way for additional testing and possible medical approval of a psychedelic drug that has been banned in the U.S. for ...

When Frank Stella painted "Double Scramble," a painting of a pair of concentric squares from 1968 that's in the San Antonio Museum of Art's permanent collection, he tried to minimize the optic mixing ...