A new study suggests that the long-term antidepressant effects of psychedelics may be driven by persistent changes in how ...

"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 ...

Psychedelics, psychoactive substances that alter people's perceptions, mood and thought patterns, have recently shown promise ...

P silocybin—the psychedelic ingredient found in some “magic” mushrooms—has shown a lot of promise for treating depression and ...

Researchers have developed a new model to study the antidepressant and anti-anxiety effects of psilocybin in mice.

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 ...

Many people with tough-to-treat depression may be trying psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, as an alternative to antidepressants. Thinking that it's a "natural" drug, folks might ...

A new study shows that natural mushroom extracts may be more therapeutically effective than synthesized psilocybin, which is widely used in research investigating the medicinal potential of the ...

On Tuesday, November 12th, students at the University of Wisconsin received an email from the Raison Lab asking if they were interested in a lab studying the effect of psilocybin. The study offered up ...