This article was originally featured on Undark. When Johannes Reckweg arrived in the Netherlands in 2016 to work on his master’s program in neuropsychology, he didn’t expect to learn about a ...

Neurons activated by the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT light up across an entire hemisphere of the mouse brain. In this 3D image, colors cycle with depth and the tissue has been spatially distorted to mimic ...

When Johannes Reckweg arrived in the Netherlands in 2016 to work on his master’s program in neuropsychology, he didn’t expect to learn about a psychedelic compound commonly found in a toad that lives ...

Considered the most powerful psychedelic, 5-MeO DMT causes extreme trips that last only 30 minutes. Two startups are trying to take it to market as a depression treatment. Madeleine Brand Host, 'Press ...

A new study published in Molecular Psychiatry suggests that the fast-acting psychedelic compound 5-MeO-DMT can reduce anxiety-like behavior in stressed mice while altering the expression of genes ...

OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Beckley Psytech Ltd, a private, clinical-stage biotechnology company developing rapid-acting, short-duration psychedelic medicines for neuropsychiatric conditions, ...

In Greek mythology, it was Charon, the scrawny ferryman, who paddled souls across the River Styx to the underworld. But the real-life ferryman transporting our human souls between the realms of the ...

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Understanding exactly how psychedelics promote new connections in the brain is critical to developing targeted, non-hallucinogenic therapeutics that can treat neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric ...