Psychotropic drugs are all the rage now as a potential treatment of brain diseases. Examples are ketamine and psilocybin for depression and PTSD. More recently, a single dose of LSD was found to have ...

Generalized anxiety disorder affects millions, often trapping sufferers in cycles of fear and isolation that conventional medications barely relieve. At UCSF, neuroscientist Jennifer Mitchell is ...

Researchers from UZH have discovered how the perception of meaning changes in the brain under the influence of LSD. The serotonin 2A receptors are responsible for altered perception. This finding will ...

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 ...

I became a neuroscientist to help us understand how humans gain deeper insight and observation into themselves, life, and being during altered states of consciousness. I never expected to write a post ...

Forget the old egg-in-a-frying pan bit - scientists finally know what your brain really looks like on drugs. A team of British-based researchers have conducted the first brain scans of people under ...