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

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its first formal guidance on how to design and run clinical trials for ...

Researchers led by Dr. Claire Foldi at Monash University have discovered that psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms, produces subtle but distinct effects on social behavior ...

A study, published in Molecular Psychiatry, led by Prof. Bernard Lerer from the Department of Psychiatry at the Hadassah—Hebrew University Medical Center shows promising results for using psilocybin, ...

Magic mushrooms have recently had a reputation revamp. Often considered a hippie drug, their main active component, psilocybin, is being tested in a variety of clinical trials as a therapy for the ...

Certain psychoactive substances can improve the mental health of terminally ill cancer patients—but few patients can ...

That project, which the Food and Drug Administration has greenlit, exemplifies a renaissance of research investigating the psychotherapeutic potential of a drug that has been federally prohibited ...

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