The psychedelic effects of shrooms kick in by 30 minutes and last up to six hours. However, they can be detected in your ...

Anecdotal reports have suggested that magic mushrooms can have a stronger intensity and different visual effects than ...

A new study announced Wednesday shows that psilocybin -- the active compound in "magic mushrooms" -- and mindfulness training ...

Penn Medicine researchers have discovered that psilocybin, a natural compound found in some psychedelic mushrooms, can relieve depression and chronic pain with a single dose.

Much of the evidence documenting the earliest use of psilocybin in mushrooms for medicinal purposes by the ancient Mayans and Aztecs was destroyed by Spanish missionaries in the 1500s. However, that ...

"Magic" mushrooms achieve their psychedelic effects by temporarily scrambling a brain network involved in introspective thinking like daydreaming and remembering, a new study reports. Brain scans of ...

Psilocybin could be the future of mental health care, with promising findings emerging from Australia's first research trial ...

Front-line health care workers struggling with depression after the COVID-19 pandemic experienced significant relief from a ...

“We are in the middle of a rapidly evolving cultural, media, and legal landscape when it comes to psychedelics,” says Nora D. Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

High doses of psilocybin - the active ingredient in magic mushrooms - appears to have a similar effect on depressive symptoms as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drug escitalopram, ...