LSD reduced symptoms of anxiety in a midstage study published Thursday, paving the way for additional testing and possible medical approval of a psychedelic drug that has been banned in the U.S. for ...

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A single dose of an investigational lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)-based medication known as MM120 (lysergide D-tartrate, Mind Medicine Inc [MindMed]) was associated with a rapid and significant ...

LSD was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938. He discovered its powerful psychoactive effects in 1943 after accidentally ingesting a small amount and experiencing vivid ...

Researchers have developed a new, neuroplasticity-promoting drug closely related to LSD that harnesses the psychedelic's therapeutic power with reduced hallucinogenic potential. University of ...

Low doses of the psychedelic drug LSD increase complexity in the brain, even when they don’t alter a person’s consciousness. The finding challenges the idea that these two phenomena are correlated and ...

A rigorous new study finds that a single dose of LSD can ease anxiety and depression for months. The study involved 198 adults with generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, a disabling form of anxiety ...

With LSD finally gaining mainstream acceptance — just last month, the FDA granted breakthrough status to an LSD formula to treat anxiety — author Norman Ohler investigates how it took so long for the ...