Researchers at a university in Sweden are using acid and ketamine to better understand the workings of the brain, which would then lead to the development of artificial intelligence. The researchers, ...

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For seven years, scientists from the University of Lund in Sweden have been testing the effects of psychedelics and amphetamines on the brain activity of rats. The experiments are two-fold: first, to ...

From ketamine drips to microdosing on LSD, psychedelics are shaking up the way we approach and treat mental health. A growing body of scientific evidence shows that these long-stigmatized substances ...

Looking for inspiration, business leaders and doctors alike are turning to the same, unexpected source: magic mushrooms, LSD and ketamine. In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs and techies say that they ...

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 ...

LSD was accidentally discovered by Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz pharmaceutical company in Switzerland in 1938. It was apparently useless, but from 1947 it was marketed as “a cure for everything from ...