In 1943, a chemist in Switzerland synthesized a drug that alters consciousness. His discovery changed the study of medicine, psychiatry and biology—and became a central component of the counterculture ...

Clinicians such as Dr. Alya Ahmad say they have offered TMS in the Sacramento area for about a year and report that some ...

For decades, conservatives were adamantly opposed to the use of drugs like psilocybin and LSD. Now, the Trump administration ...

Many of us know only one side of the story of psychedelic therapy. In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychiatrists gave LSD and mescaline to patients struggling with depression, anxiety, and addiction.

Albert Hofmann calculated that one teaspoon of LSD could affect 50,000 people. He arrived at that figure after accidentally absorbing a trace amount through his skin at the Sandoz laboratory in Basel ...

Microdosing on cannabis is far more prevalent among U.S. adults than previously known. New research from the University of ...

Dominic allowed me to publish a series of articles he had written called “Psychedelic Skeletons in the Closet” that focused ...

Having racked up more than 100 film and TV performances since the late 1950s, there were bound to be some moments Judi Dench ...

Yet this area of medicine also demands extra care — or the U.S. risks unleashing complex therapies into an infrastructure unprepared to support them. Americans have already seen what happens when a ...

You don’t need substances to alter your brain — not if you have a Netflix subscription. The 21 movies and shows on this list ...

The 18th-century firebrand American preacher Jonathan Edwards, alarm clock in chief of the Great Awakening, once ...

There’s a strange dichotomy that exists in live theater. I may not like the material, but will still find reason to love its ...