San Francisco’s UCSF is stepping into the national spotlight as one of several university medical centers testing whether a ...

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In a guidance document issued by the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine, updated recommendations are presented ...

If you’re interested in seeking ketamine treatment for depression, you probably have a few questions about how it all works.

For decades, psychedelics were synonymous with counterculture and elicited fierce political backlash. Today, compounds derived from psychoactive substances such as psilocybin and lysergic acid ...

Generalized anxiety disorder affects 1 in 20 U.S. adults. Those with serious symptoms may isolate themselves to the point they rarely leave their home and are unable to work and build meaningful ...

A new study suggests that lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, could reduce anxiety. This marks the first-ever trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of MM120 (a pharmaceutical ...

Anxiety seeps into daily life. It disrupts focus at work, strains relationships, and turns even small tasks into stress triggers. Standard treatments are available, but they do not work for everyone.

A rigorous new study finds that a single dose of LSD can ease anxiety and depression for months. The study involved 198 adults with generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, a disabling form of anxiety ...

A rigorous new study finds that a single dose of LSD can ease a person's anxiety for months. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports that the study shows how research on psychedelics is entering the mainstream.