Chronic migraine can greatly affect your life, especially when the pain arrives suddenly and traditional medications don't seem to help. An alternative remedy currently being studied may offer help ...

A hand in a blue glove plucks a white mushroom from a dense stand of mushrooms. Mature magic mushrooms are carefully harvested to minimize damage. Credit: Filament Health Some scientists theorize that ...

In 2016 psychiatrist Benjamin Kelmendi was treating two patients with severe, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) at a Connecticut mental health center when the patients abruptly ...

The Trump administration is set to weigh in on whether the hallucinogenic compound psilocybin should be moved into a less restrictive class of drugs under federal regulations. Regulation of psilocybin ...

As psychedelic-assisted therapy grows in popularity, several substances are being recognized for their potential in treating trauma. Psilocybin, ketamine, and MDMA have emerged as some of the most ...

For centuries, indigenous cultures across Mexico and Central America have used Psilocybe mushrooms in their healing ceremonies. Today, those same fungi are being explored as a treatment for ...

Scientists found that the magic behind so-called “magic mushrooms”—psilocybin, a psychedelic compound—has evolved at least twice in mushrooms, and in very different ways. Researchers in Germany and ...