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Researchers Gave LSD and Humans To Dogs — And Something Magical Happened

We’ve found our leading candidate for most interesting study of the year.

By Elana Spivack
Health

LSD — Yes, LSD — Shows Promising Results For Treating Anxiety

A clinical trial in the US by the biopharmaceutical company MindMed has shown that a form of LSD (lysergide d-tartrate), given at a relatively low dose, can effectively treat people with anxiety.

By Colin Davidson and The Conversation
Longreads

“I am certain that the LSD experience has helped me very much.”

66 years ago, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous tried LSD — and ignited a controversy still raging today

By Katie MacBride
Don't trip

LSD-like drug may treat depression without the "trip" effect — mouse study

If human trials go well, the drug could revolutionize psychiatric pharmacology.

By Katie MacBride
A Trip Begins

Scientists uncover the molecular origins of an LSD trip

"Now we know how psychedelic drugs work – finally!"

By Emma Betuel
Blotter blog

Can LSD help struggling people make friends? Why a new study is so promising

By Sarah Sloat
Mind and Body

Study: A microdose of LSD could alter a fundamental human experience

"Anyone on any of these doses could sit behind a computer and do their work."

By Emma Betuel
Mental Health

LSD and Magic Mushrooms Dramatically Rewire the Brain, New Study Reveals

This finding could usher in a new type of antidepressant and expand psychedelic-assisted therapy.

By Miriam Fauzia
Brain Buzz

Here's how 4 hallucinogenic drugs transform your brain

Here's what's happening in your brain when you take LSD, MDMA, magic mushrooms, and ketamine.

By Katie MacBride
LSDownward dog

Why LSD may be as good for you as yoga

Journey to the center of your mindfulness.

By Vince Polito and Stephen Bright
Trippy

Psychedelic study reveals how LSD changes the brain

"Now we know how psychedelic drugs work — finally!"

By Grace Browne
Trippy

How LSD binds to your brain cells

By JoAnna Wendel
Trippy

Can you overdose on LSD? What 3 case studies teach us

“The evidence is: Any drug can be used and any drug can be abused."

By Ali Pattillo
Mind and Body

Study reveals what happens to the brain on LSD

The psychedelic experience has a lot in common with sensory overload.

By Claire Cameron
Health

Psychedelics' Role in Beating Alcoholism Illustrated in LSD, Psilocybin Study

"There's incredible potential here."

By Sarah Sloat
Health

LSD-Tripping Brains Reveal How the Drug Causes the Psychedelic Experience

This is your brain on sensory overload.

By Yasmin Tayag
Health

Microdosing LSD May Make You Wiser and More Creative, Study Reveals

But it's still totally illegal.

By Thomas Anderson and Rotem Petranker
Science

Why LSD and MDMA Drugs Are Making a Comeback for Science

It's a psychedelic renaissance.

By Erika Dyck
Health

Psychedelic Drugs Reshape Cells to "Repair" Neurons in Our Brains

Psychedelics could show the way to a new generation of medicine.

By Peter Hess
Science

LSD Gives Congenitally Blind Man Synesthesia-Like Hallucinations

'Every time I did acid, I experienced something new and spectacular.'

By Sarah Sloat
Science

LSD Blurs the Barrier Between You and Everyone Else, New Study Finds

There's a reason acid trips create feeling of "oneness."

By Sarah Sloat
Science

LSD Study Reveals Unprecedented "Harmonic" Reorganization of Brain

The drug appears to hit a "reset" button in the brain.

By Peter Hess
Health

These Troops Were Ordered to Take LSD

"Sir, YES, Sir!"

By Inverse Video
Culture

Happy 79th Birthday, LSD!

Albert Hoffman first synthesized the chemical on November 16, 1938.

By Peter Hess
Science

Microdosing LSD Is Safer Than Taking Antidepressants, Says Neurobiologist

The latest trend in self-medication might be legally risky but biologically tame.

By Jacqueline Ronson
Health

The Plan to Prove Microdosing Makes You Smarter

Amanda Feilding has been working towards this goal for half a century.

By Jacqueline Ronson
Science

Microdosing LSD Is Still Just Informed Guesswork

By Jacqueline Ronson
Science

100 Therapeutic LSD Trips Helped Cary Grant Prepare for the Future

By Sarah Sloat
Science

Crowdfunders Greenlight World's First LSD Microdosing Study

By Yasmin Tayag
Science

Shrooms vs. Acid: The Scientific Difference Between LSD and Magic Mushrooms

Two hallucinogens, both alike in trippiness.

By Sarah Sloat