Results of a small phase 2 study show psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in "magic mushrooms," is as effective in easing the symptoms of moderate-to-severe depression as a widely prescribed SSRI.

How Psychedelics Are Helping Some People Cope With Racial Trauma Drugs like ketamine and psilocybin offer patients a new perspective on their experiences with racism In a handful of clinics across …

CEO Florian Brand told Insider that the money will be used to "double down" on the company's existing strategy.

Ketamine has two forms, called isomers: R-ketamine and S-ketamine. We explain the nuances of ketamine’s neurochemistry.

In January the UK’s first medical psychedelic clinic is due to open in Bristol, offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy

Whether you're wondering about the dissociative drug recreationally or therapeutically, here are the facts about what it does and how it works.

New research provides evidence that the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms can affect brain processes related to emotional functioning long

The active ingredient in magic mushrooms, psilocybin, may cause its trippy experiences by making different brain regions much more interconnected

Read our Microdosing Mushrroms Guide to find out how microdosing psilocybin can help with depression, anxiety or mood disorders.

Why I Quit Ayahuasca Shamanism After 11 Years and 1,000 Ceremonies

"There's incredible potential here."

A colleague and friend referred a shaman to my private practice. We did brief and very focused work in one area of distress. As our work together was ending, she told me about an upcoming retreat for mental health professionals focused on psychedelic medicine, bridging the gap between ceremony and t

Music is considered an important component of psychedelic therapy for mood disorders and addiction, but little empirical research has been done to examine the nature of its therapeutic role. A new paper from our Beckley/Imperial study, on psilocybin therapy for treatment-resistant depression,  reveals the ways in which subjective response to music is intensified under psychedelics, and demonstrates the influence of…

As MDMA sits on the precipice of being legally approved as clinical treatment for PTSD in the United States, a team of researchers from the University of Exeter set out to try to better understand what long-term effects the drug has on a person’s ability to emotionally empathize with others.

Psychedelics could be 'next generation' of safer treatments for mental health

MDMA-assisted psychotherapy readies for phase III trials, a last step before possible prescription use in PTSD patients

"Psychedelic therapy is about using the drugs to dig down and get to the heart of the problems driving longterm mental illness," said psychiatrist Ben Sessa.