People in a new study who took psilocybin often experienced headache, nausea, anxiety, dizziness and elevated blood pressure -- side effects similar to those seen with regular antidepressants. Photo ...

"Magic" mushrooms achieve their psychedelic effects by temporarily scrambling a brain network involved in introspective thinking like daydreaming and remembering, a new study reports. Brain scans of ...

Many clinical trials to test the use of psychedelic medicines for conditions such as depression have been underway since 2022 ...

First it was wine. Then it was weed. Now? Mushrooms. Microdosing psilocybin, the active compound in so-called "magic mushrooms," is the latest mind-altering trend catching on with exhausted, ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers in the United States of America tracked brain changes in healthy adults prior to, during, and after administration of high-dose ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers are investigating the use of psilocybin as a potential anti-aging therapy. Jon Cartwright/Getty Images Psilocybin is a chemical that is found in a wide variety of ...

(CNN) — Shrooms, Alice, tweezes, mushies, hongos, pizza toppings, magic mushrooms — everyday lingo for psychedelic mushrooms seems to grow with each generation. Yet leading mycologist Paul Stamets ...

Many people with tough-to-treat depression may be trying psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, as an alternative to antidepressants. Thinking that it's a "natural" drug, folks might ...