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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 ...

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 ...

Initial clinical trials include psilocybin for anxiety and MDMA studies for schizophrenia. For some people, anxiety, depression and substance abuse disorders can be difficult to treat. But ...

In search of emotional healing and inner peace, Lisa joins a weekend psilocybin retreat with two other women also living with cancer. The retreat is guided by Heather A. Lee, a certified ...

Across cultures and history, psychedelics have been used to induce religious experiences described as unity, transcendence, and encounters with divine beings. Modern research shows substances like ...

Researchers at the UC Davis Department of Chemistry and Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics have come up with a new technique to create candidate drugs that engage the serotonin receptor ...

This post was co-written by Eugene Rubin, MD, PhD, and Charles Zorumski, MD Recently, interest in using psychedelic drugs for certain psychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety, and ...

A new UBC Okanagan study found that people who microdose psychedelics feel better on the days they take them-but those boosts don't seem to last. This suggests, says Dr. Michelle St. Pierre, that ...

Hofstra University professor and clinical psychologist Nehal Vadhan sat in a lab next to three metal and glass pipes that, if he receives federal authorization, will be filled with marijuana in ...