While dosing is the most significant determinant, other psychological and pharmacological factors also play a critical role. A positive mood before drug intake was strongly linked to elevated ratings ...

Although a large volume of anecdotal reports have been published over the last few years affirming the value of LSD microdosing, there has been very little scientific or empirical study on this ...

Researchers are investigating whether the drug could be used in mainstream medicine—with and without its hallucinatory ...

A new study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology provided results from one of the first modern clinical investigations of its kind to compare the effects of psychedelic drugs lysergic acid ...

New research out of Switzerland used LSD to uncover how exactly the brain attributes emotional meaning to different aspects of life. Their findings have important implications for psychiatric ...

A new peer-reviewed study compared the effects of LSD and psilocybin, two substances currently standing as top molecules behind the recent psychedelic medicine boom. While both compounds have a rich ...

The consumption of LSD, short for lysergic acid diethylamide, can produce altered states of consciousness. This can lead to a loss of boundaries between the self and the environment, as might occur in ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) alters the activity in brain regions involved in establishing one's sense of self and in differentiating between oneself and someone else during social interactions, ...

LSD is an extremely potent, long-lasting psychedelic drug: A dose of just 100 micrograms is enough to send someone on a hallucinatory trip that can last a whole day. Now, scientists report that the ...

There is such a thing as a bad trip. But how long do the effects of an LSD overdose last? And are they always so terrible? Now, by analyzing the bizarre accidental overdoses of three women, scientists ...

Locked inside a human brain protein, the hallucinogenic drug LSD takes an extra-long trip. New X-ray crystallography images reveal how an LSD molecule gets trapped within a protein that senses ...