A flair of energy in the brain in a dying patient who had “no blood pressure” or “heart rate” could be evidence of the “soul ...

Bryan Johnson is a biohacker on a mission to conquer death and has been injecting ketamine into his system to see how it ...

Researchers found that excessively activated neurons over time, rather than decreased neuronal activity, cause aging-related decline in brain function in nematodes.

Last year, the path to FDA authorization of the psychedelic drug MDMA for treatment of PTSD hit an unexpected snag. It later ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just 'background noise.' ...

Upheaval within the brain’s higher order network could explain psilocybin users’ feelings of profound connection to the ...

Some researchers believe DMT, a powerful psychedelic that may naturally occur in the brain, could be your soul’s “ferryman.” ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

I found myself in the surreal position of taking enormous doses of drugs with a group of women I'd known for less than 48 ...

Stress doesn’t just affect emotions — it changes how we perceive the world. A study found that mice exposed to a week of ...

For a full year, a church in Colorado Springs has been providing psilocybin mushrooms to its members at no cost, citing legal ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...