As a psychologist who has served as a therapist and site co-principal investigator in clinical trials of MDMA and psilocybin, I'm often asked what conditions psychedelic therapy can treat and how it ...

Psychedelics work on the brain by increasing the functional connection between the thinking and sensory regions, temporarily blurring the line between perception and thought, an international ...

Psychedelics can quiet the brain’s visual input system, pushing it to replace missing details with vivid fragments from memory. Scientists found that slow, rhythmic brain waves help shift perception ...

The most basic assumption about how psychedelic medicine works is at least partially flawed: Psychedelics are altering not just a few specific brain cells, but the vast majority of them, according to ...

A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to produce vivid hallucinations, even when a person’s eyes are closed. Studies ...

Reardon is a senior at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, head of marketing at Truxtun, a veteran-focused psychedelic retreat company, and a writer at Tripwire, a news blog covering ...

Sept. 11, 2025 -- Psychedelics like ketamine, psilocybin, and MDMA are emerging as promising treatments for mood disorders that don’t respond to standard care. What has research shown using these ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro Francis, 44, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland’s Biology ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." DURING MY FIRST ketamine journey, I found myself in a void, curious to follow an overhead boulevard of ...