Psychedelics like LSD and mushrooms are losing much of their former stigma and more people are becoming curious about these mind-altering drugs.Photograph: Marco Allegretti/Unsplash Six years ago, on ...

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 ...

When someone embarks on a psychedelic trip, they have little control over what they'll experience. A person could find themselves floating through the universe, or face-to-face with terrors that haunt ...

Recent years have seen an explosion of research into the therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs. Psychedelic drugs clearly can help with anxiety, especially end-of-life anxiety, depression and drug ...

This article by Emma Stone was originally published on Microdose and appears here with permission. Do non-hallucinogenic psychedelic experiences give the same therapeutic advantages as mind-blowing ...

So many people believe that this is exactly the prescription for our troubled culture right now; that if lots of people have psychedelic experience we will have more nature connectedness — that is ...

Hallucinogenic drugs like MDMA, psilocybin, and DMT have received unprecedented scientific attention in recent years. After a decades-long hiatus, researchers around the world are finally studying the ...

Psychedelics, such as magic mushrooms, LSD and ayahuasca, are known to have powerful effects on the brain, which can significantly alter consciousness. But how do these substances affect our minds in ...