A team of scientists in California has tweaked the hallucinogenic drug LSD to make it usable to treat schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. According to the ...

BIRMINGHAM, England — Half a century after Timothy Leary urged the world to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” there’s a surge of interest in lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The psychedelic drug was ...

Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that tells a remarkable story. “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of ...

"Do not do LSD, children," Josh Brolin said on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live,' before adding, "It was the greatest thing I ever did" Josh Brolin's first taste of psychedelic drugs came early. During his Thursday ...

On Dec. 21, 1967 — the winter solstice, when the sun’s annual perambulations through the zodiac had reached their most southerly point — light was dimming on the Summer of Love. In an unassuming pad ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Researchers have developed a groundbreaking version of LSD that retains the drug's brain-healing benefits without the mind-altering effects. The team at the University of California, ...

Margaret Mead was among the most famous scientists of the 20 th century. Despite this, however, her role in the early history of psychedelic research has gone strangely unnoticed. With her ...

A dose of LSD – that psychedelic drug hippie grandmothers took in the 60s – could help ease anxiety, a new study has found. LSD, also called acid, is a hallucinatory drug that makes us feel euphoric, ...

For the new study, a team led by Dr. Reid Robison of Cedar Clinical Research in Draper, Utah, randomly assigned 198 adults ...

People with generalized anxiety disorder improved significantly after they got a single dose of LSD powerful enough to induce ...

Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 was synthesized in a Swiss laboratory in 1938. Early researchers called it “psychotomimetic” because it caused psychosis akin to schizophrenia. In the 1950s, the British ...

GENEVA - LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its first human guinea pig is celebrating his centenary today — in ...