It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.
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Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.
Another study confirms the positive effects of psychedelics on mental health.
Far from being inappropriate, many of the most controversial acceptance speeches highlighted important issues in the film industry.
This discovery could lead to better treatments for PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and epilepsy.
The compound found in “magic mushrooms” has significant and fast-acting impact on the brains of rats.
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the highest honor in medicine for their research into how human bodies make sense of and respond to the outside world.
Join New York Times best-selling author Maria Konnikova as she leads this special edition of Big Think Live.
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Two different studies provide further evidence of the efficacy of psychedelics in treating depression.
The treatment is here, but are we ready?
The heart of the religious ritual is mysticism, argues Brian Muraresku in “The Immortality Key.”
Psychedelics are going mainstream. Here’s your reading list.
Turns out chitin is quite useful when you need a wrench.
What is more important, that a treatment helps keep people healthy or that it meshes with our morals?
Psychedelic therapy will become legal in Oregon in 2023. That’s thanks largely to a renaissance of psychedelic research that’s changing attitudes on the substances’ medical potential.
You actually score worse on memory tests.
In “The Immortality Key,” Brian Muraresku speculates that the Eucharist could have once been more colorful.
Even more intriguing is the reason: recognizing facial expressions.
Clinical trials by Janssen Pharmaceuticals showed troubling results.
Can microdosing LSD enhance creativity and focus?
Might microdosing LSD and psilocybin be a safe, effective way to treat depression and other disorders?
A study on the effects of LSD microdosing shows some fittingly strange results.
LSD may help us change our lives by spurring perspective shifts.
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Clinical studies are underway. How we treat them moving forward matters.
Yet another study shows the potential efficacy of psychedelics in treating addiction.
The first church to marry gay couples in Oklahoma. The merging of a congregation founded by a white supremacist with the members of a black Pentacostal congregation. The film American Heretics explores the complexities of religious life in the Bible Belt as it intersects with politics and race.
The idea of ‘absolute time’ is an illusion. Physics and subjective experience reveal why.
An experimental study involving 90 heavy drinkers found promising results.
Will Storr has written a masterful guide to writing with “The Science of Storytelling.”