particularly those related to severe side effects that may occur in patients during treatment. Indeed, hallucinogens, due to their varied and still poorly understood mechanisms of action ...

However, these prototype agents have drawbacks including: profound hallucinogenic or dissociative effects that make them risky for unsupervised use, an inconveniently long duration of action ...

A recent study published in Translational Psychiatry sheds new light on the diverse factors that influence how individuals experience the effects of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide).The research ...

With profit as the most obvious motive, psychiatry is pushing dangerous psychedelic drugs at every turn. New research studies ...

The effects of taking larger doses of hallucinogens should wear off over the course of six to 15 hours. HPPD symptoms, however, persist long after the normal active life of the drug and can be ...

Colorado’s legalization of retail marijuana over a dozen years ago — before anybody thought through the consequences — was a classic case of ready-fire-aim. The ripple effects since then have ...

Olson collaborated with Christina Kim, a neuroscientist and bioengineer at IPN, to explore which neural circuits in the brain mediate the hallucinogenic and antianxiety effects of psychedelic drugs.