A person with naturally occurring synesthesia experiences the sensory world in overlapping layers. Sounds are seen as colors and tastes are processed as sounds. Overall, there are 60 documented forms ...

In the spring of 1966, Stewart Brand did 100 micrograms of LSD and sat on top of a roof in San Francisco. Perched there, he looked toward a curved horizon and imagined the spherical Earth and just how ...

This image shows how much more of the brain contributes to the visual experience under LSD than under placebo. (Credit: Imperial/Beckley Foundation) The psychedelic drug LSD is known for the wild ...

People suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder, or GAS, often describe a constant feeling of overwhelming, crippling worry. It’s like a radio in your brain that’s always catching static, and it’s ...

Psychedelic pharmaceutical company Mind Medicine (MindMed) Inc. MMEDF MMED says it found an off-switch to end a bad trip. The Toronto-based company announced it has discovered and filed a patent ...

One person’s acid trip could be another person’s anxiety therapy. That’s the tantalizing upshot from a new study that showed ...

In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the ...

Not everyone comes back from a bad trip — but this woman came back feeling better than ever. A 46-year-old woman snorted 55 milligrams of what she thought was cocaine in 2015 — only to realize it was ...

People with generalized anxiety disorder improved significantly after they got a single dose of LSD powerful enough to induce ...