Scientists have long known that psychedelics like LSD can help the brain grow new connections. These drugs promote something called neuroplasticity, which helps the brain heal from mental illness. But there’s a major problem: hallucinations. Drugs like ...

(CNN) — A clinical trial’s encouraging results won US Food and Drug Administration breakthrough therapy status for an LSD formulation to treat generalized anxiety disorder, Mind Medicine Inc. announced Thursday. The biopharmaceutical company is developing the drug. “A breakthrough designation is a recognition that a drug has demonstrated evidence of clinical efficacy in meeting an unmet ...

In 1943, biochemist Albert Hoffman accidentally ingested a chemical that he had synthesized from a fungus and discovered that it created hallucinations. The mind-bending chemical was lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and psychiatrists seized on its ...

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 Psychedelic Science” tracks the souring of the idealism once ...

(CNN) — A clinical trial’s encouraging results won an LSD formulation approval from the US Food and Drug Administration as a breakthrough therapy for generalized anxiety disorder, Mind Medicine Inc. announced Thursday. The biopharmaceutical company is ...