Dr Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943. In 1986, he told the BBC about a "terrifying" bicycle ride home from the laboratory.

In 1943, a chemist in Switzerland synthesized a drug that alters consciousness. His discovery changed the study of medicine, ...

Albert Hofmann calculated that one teaspoon of LSD could affect 50,000 people. He arrived at that figure after accidentally ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bettmann via Getty Images In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful ...

New treatments for mental health and behavioral disorders are desperately needed. Rates of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance use disorders soared during the pandemic, and traditional ...

This article was originally published on Psychedelic Spotlight and appears here with permission. New study suggests that a non-hallucinogenic LSD analog may hold therapeutic potential for mood ...

While trying to understand what makes the psychedelic drug LSD work, Dr. Mattias Liechti, head of the Liechti Laboratory at the University of Basel Hospital, stumbled onto something unexpected. During ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Illustration by BORIS SÉMÉNIAKO On Dec. 21, 1967 — the winter solstice, when the sun’s annual perambulations through the ...

Scientists have identified a drug that appears to produce the antidepressant effects of LSD without the psychedelic side effects — at least in mice. Drugs like magic mushrooms and LSD can act as ...

Scientists have designed compounds that hit the same key receptor that LSD activates without causing hallucinations. A single dose produced powerful antidepressant and antianxiety effects in mice that ...