Count Deepak Chopra among the medical experts who see enormous promise in psychedelic substances like psilocybin or “magic mushrooms.” “I think psychedelics might wake us up,” Chopra says in the new ...

LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938, working for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now part of Novartis) in Basel, Switzerland. He discovered its powerful psychoactive effects in ...

In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the ...

In a series of experiments, scientists have gained a glimpse into how the psychedelic compound affects brain activity. The team administered LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) to 20 healthy volunteers ...

Patients got a single dose of LSD — under professional supervision, but without therapy — and then were followed for about three months. The paper does not detail how patients were prepared for the ...

While dosing is the most significant determinant, other psychological and pharmacological factors also play a critical role. A positive mood before drug intake was strongly linked to elevated ratings ...

Gates admitted to dabbling in recreational drug use in his youth. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently shared an unusual anecdote about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an interview with The ...

It was my ever-changing, sometimes turbulent journey with wellness that brought me to somatic therapy, a body-based alternative to talking therapy. I was increasingly bored with talking about the same ...