A series of recent brain-imaging studies has begun to explain a central mystery of the psychedelic experience: why people on psilocybin report that memories seem to blend with what they are actually ...

Scientists looked at a wide range of brain scans to determine how consciousness gets so trippy on mind-altering drugs.

UNSW Sydney and Macquarie University psychology researchers have written an article warning that psychedelic therapies may switch on visual mental imagery in people with aphantasia and could raise the ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham have discovered that some psychedelic compounds appear to alter how the immune system communicates with the brain, offering hope that psychedelics have the ...

A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to “see” images from memory rather than what’s actually in front of it. Long before modern laboratory testing, indigenous cultures ...

The horrific October 7, 2023, attack at the Nova Music Festival in Israel represents a tragic but important moment in the history of trauma research. For the first ...