People have been taking LSD for decades, but experts still don’t know all that much about it, especially when it comes to how it affects your brain. Still, LSD doesn’t appear to kill brain cells. At ...

In 1957, when the British psychiatrist Humprhey Osmond was looking to coin a word for the mind-bending effects of LSD, he wrote a letter to his friend Aldous Huxley. The "Brave New World" author — who ...

“On LSD, the brain spent less time on higher-level processing and more on the sensory-driven activities.” LSD also reduced the amount of energy the brain needs to switch from one state to another, ...

A team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, made small tweaks to the molecular structure of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to see if it could be turned into an effective ...

A new study explores how LSD could influence the way the brain processes pain, breaking new ground for research The results revealed significant differences in how the brain processed pain under the ...

Low doses of the psychedelic drug LSD increase complexity in the brain, even when they don’t alter a person’s consciousness. The finding challenges the idea that these two phenomena are correlated and ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis have developed a new drug related to LSD that retains the psychedelic’s beneficial brain effects while minimizing the hallucinogenic experience. The ...

Chemists at the University of California, Davis did something that borders on the molecular equivalent of pulling off a magic trick. They moved two atoms within the intricate structure of LSD—a drug ...

Source: By IndependentOo, Dominik from Germany, Maximilian IV, Laitche, NASA; composite artwork by Belbury - CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Working in his lab at the pharmaceutical company Sandoz in 1938, ...

This article was originally published on Psychedelic Spotlight and appears here with permission. New study suggests that a non-hallucinogenic LSD analog may hold therapeutic potential for mood ...