The brains of subjects lying awake with their eyes closed, under a placebo (left) and the drug LSD (right), are seen when being examined using a functional MRI machine. Reuters Scientists for the ...

For many, the psychedelic Sixties began at an event called the Trips Festival that took place in San Francisco the third weekend of January 1966. At the three-day blowout, between 3,000 and 5,000 ...

Your brain on LSD is kind of like jazz improvisation. That’s according to Selen Atasoy, a research fellow at the Center for Brain and Cognition at the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. She was among ...

LSD reduced symptoms of anxiety in a midstage study published Thursday, paving the way for additional testing and possible medical approval of a psychedelic drug that has been banned in the U.S. for ...

Among psychedelic enthusiasts, April 19 or Bicycle Day honors a mind-altering ride taken by the Swiss chemist who created LSD. Bicycle Day marks a hallucinogenic ride that's considered the birth of ...

“The mind—that seven inches of in ner space between the root of the nose and the occiput— our prized possession; its study on every level is most important,” says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen ...

The acid tests of 1960s San Francisco have morphed into something quite different in today’s Silicon Valley. Mind-altering trips have given way to subtle productivity boosts purportedly caused by tiny ...