A psychoactive ingredient found in ayahuasca, a brew used in shamanistic rituals in South America, has shown promise as a treatment for depression in a phase 2a trial. In the study, 34 people living ...

If you didn’t have “psychedelic tobacco” on your bingo card of “potential pieces of actual good news” for this week, well, me neither. But according to a paper published this week in Science Advances, ...

Compounds in psychedelic drugs like DMT, psilocybin, and psilocin are naturally produced in certain plants, fungi, and animals, and have a long history of use in spiritual and therapeutic contexts.

A web of EEG electrodes covered Anton Bilton’s scalp like a jeweled headdress. The machine would map his brain activity while the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine, commonly known as DMT, coursed ...

Study finds participants saw reduction in depressive symptoms as researchers welcome ‘promising’ results A phase II clinical trial has found dimethyltryptamine (DMT), one of the psychoactive ...

A single dose of psychedelics significantly reduced symptoms in people with major depressive disorder, a new study found. The clinical trial was led by researchers at Imperial College London, where ...

Over the last few years, evidence has piled up that psychedelic drugs can provide relatively rapid relief from the symptoms of clinical depression. The drugs seemingly work by boosting the brain’s ...

For decades, the idea that the human brain might naturally produce the psychedelic compound DMT has attracted considerable attention. It has been speculated that DMT could function as a natural ...

A powerful psychedelic, best known for its intense but brief effects, may offer a new way to treat depression. In a Phase 2 clinical trial at Imperial College London, a single intravenous dose of ...

A single dose of the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT) had a rapid and sustained effect on depressive symptoms in a small trial. DMT – a fast-acting and extremely potent psychedelic found in ...

A master meditator has spent 15 years learning to quiet his sense of self – and brain scans suggest he achieved a similarly altered state with a powerful psychedelic. “There seems to be, with that low ...

Losing your sense of self is a common part of a dimethyltryptamine (DMT) trip, but what actually happens in the brain when this occurs? Researchers at Imperial College London and collaborators ...