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

Dr Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943. In 1986, he told the BBC about a ...

Military veterans may eventually see newer forms of mental health relief by way of treatments being greenlighted by the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It's always been a bit of a mystery why LSD is such a potent hallucinogen. Unlike most similar drugs, it takes only a ...

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of ...

The president’s executive order is intended to accelerate research into the compounds’ efficacy in treating mental health ...

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

In large doses, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) can repair damaged neurons in the brain, and reveal new ways of seeing the world. In small doses, microdosers chase the effects of the drug on ...

LSD usage is on the rise among U.S. adults – especially young adults with depression. And the trend mirrors growing research into the psychedelic drug's ability to treat mental health disorders like ...

May didn’t notice much with the first dose of LSD. She felt good, and she got a lot accomplished, and that was all. It was the day after that things really clicked. She felt even better, and she got a ...

Novelist T.C. Boyle focuses on real-life figures with cult-like followings — he's written fiction about cornflakes king John Harvey Kellogg, architect Frank Lloyd Wright and sex researcher Alfred ...