A person with naturally occurring synesthesia experiences the sensory world in overlapping layers. Sounds are seen as colors and tastes are processed as sounds. Overall, there are 60 documented forms ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, was accidentally discovered in the late 1930s by a pharmaceutical researcher. Not getting the results he wanted initially, Albert Hofmann ...

The psychedelic experience of LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, is so expansive it encompasses our entire experience of consciousness. But it begins with a tiny invisible process: LSD binding to a ...

The work was led by David E. Olson, director of the Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics at the University of California, Davis. Scientists in Olson’s lab and at Delix Therapeutics, a ...

Psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin from “magic mushrooms” have been proposed to ease depression. But the hallucination side effect makes these powerful drugs less ideal as therapeutics. Now, ...

May didn’t notice much with the first dose of LSD. She felt good, and she got a lot accomplished, and that was all. It was the day after that things really clicked. She felt even better, and she got a ...

LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), also called “acid,” is a type of synthetic and mind-altering substance (psychedelic). This belongs to a class of drugs called hallucinogens. When you take LSD, even ...

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 ...

Researchers have designed compounds that hit the same key receptor that LSD activates without causing hallucinations, according to an article (“Bespoke library docking for 5-HT 2A receptor agonists ...

Generalized anxiety disorder affects millions, often trapping sufferers in cycles of fear and isolation that conventional medications barely relieve. At UCSF, neuroscientist Jennifer Mitchell is ...