In large doses, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) can repair damaged neurons in the brain, and reveal new ways of seeing the world. In small doses, microdosers chase the effects of the drug on ...

LSD has been praised for unlocking creativity and condemned for unleashing chaos in the mind. Scientists are uncovering why ...

New research finds that LSD effects are shaped by dose, mood, and personality traits, offering insights into optimizing psychedelic therapy.

From hallucinations to a loss of your sense of self, the effects of taking a drug such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) have been known for some time. Taking LSD leads to increases in activity ...

The effects of psilocybin typically last 4-6 hours when taken orally, while LSD effects stretch out up to 12 hours or more.

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 ...

For the first time in more than four decades, the drug lysergic acid diethylamide -- better known as LSD -- has been the experimental adjunct to psychotherapy in a controlled clinical trial ...

Researchers at the Imperial College of London have for the first time mapped the effects of LSD on the brain using fMRI and other scans while patients were under the influence of the drug. The ...

Want to experience LSD-like hallucinations without drugs? Try staring in a dimly lit room for 10 minutes.

These various behavioral effects of LSD were studied in both Sprague-Dawley and Wistar rats, although with the exception of back muscle contractions which were more prominent in Sprague-Dawley ...