A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to produce vivid hallucinations, even when a person’s eyes are closed. Studies ...

I became a neuroscientist to help us understand how humans gain deeper insight and observation into themselves, life, and being during altered states of consciousness. I never expected to write a post ...

One person’s acid trip could be another person’s anxiety therapy. That’s the tantalizing upshot from a new study that showed LSD may have the potential to alleviate anxiety. The findings are just the ...