A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to ...

Researchers are now testing whether psilocybin can treat severe depression without producing the hallucinogenic trip that has ...

Scientists are exploring a new way to harness the medical promise of psychedelic compounds without the mind-bending side effects. Researchers created modified versions of psilocin — the active form of ...

“His first misperceptions occurred when he was in a nightclub; the skin of the other dancers, even their faces, seemed to be covered with tattoos. At first, he thought the tattoos were real, but they ...

New research implicates the subcortical systems in hallucinations. In a study of injured patients, scientists found that the loss of function of specific brain regions allowed the brain to hallucinate ...