An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of thinking about an image differs from objective reality. This image is seen as a high-contrast black-and-white optical illusion made ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom last fall signaled he was ready to bring psychedelic drugs into the mainstream of California’s mental health system and a pair of lawmakers today submitted a bill to hold him to his ...

The agency issued priority vouchers for 3 experimental new drugs using psilocybin and methylone, amid Trump’s pro-psychedelics push. The Trump administration is putting America on the fast track to a ...

The Senate bill proposes to open a limited psychedelic-assisted therapy pilot program established in 2022 to people who are ...

A new review criticizes current methods of measuring the acute subjective effects of psychedelics. Experts call for the development of new, more comprehensive measures that can accurately assess ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators are questioning the safety and evidence behind the first bid to use MDMA, the mind-altering club drug, as a treatment for PTSD, part of a decadeslong effort ...

I have spent the last 10 years of my life investigating psychedelics as novel treatments for mental health conditions. When ...

Some psychedelic drugs, once considered fringe, are now getting a step closer to possibly being approved for use as mental health treatments in the United States.