A team of scientists in California has tweaked the hallucinogenic drug LSD to make it usable to treat schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. According to the ...
LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938, working for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now part of Novartis) in Basel, Switzerland. He discovered its powerful psychoactive effects in ...
Two recent studies conducted by scientists at the University Health Network and the University of Toronto provide new ...
A growing body of neuroscience research is converging on a counterintuitive idea: the disorderly brain activity triggered by LSD might actually work against the hyper-synchronized neural firing that ...
A massive backlash against LSD eventually culminated in a 1970 Congressional law declaring it a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it officially has "no accepted medical use" in the U.S.
Researchers from UZH have discovered how the perception of meaning changes in the brain under the influence of LSD. The serotonin 2A receptors are responsible for altered perception. This finding will ...