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 ...

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 ...

Psychedelics fell from medical grace nearly half a century ago, but recent activity suggests that some researchers have “high hopes” for their return.1, 2 Over 60 years ago, Albert Hofmann at Sandoz ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A few days before Christmas last year, two friends and I planned to take LSD together. We set a date and location: 10am Saturday morning ...

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 ...