A small pilot study found that a high dose of psilocybin strengthened an illusion in which a striped pattern looks fainter ...

Advocating for unrestricted freedom of speech is not always driven by democratic ideals. A new psychological study finds that ...

Psilocybin, LSD, and 2C-B all act on the same serotonin receptor, so they are often treated as a single drug class. But brain ...

Streaming digital jazz might do more than provide background noise. New research shows that algorithm-curated jazz playlists ...

Teenagers who overuse smartphones often struggle to manage their own learning later on. A new longitudinal study reveals that ...

Researchers expected awe to make people more open to diversity. Instead, in a study of nearly 3,200 adults, a short happy ...

Using genetic test results to guide antidepressant prescriptions did not improve depression symptoms after 3 months in a ...

A large study of children reveals that the supposed gender gap in risk-taking vanishes when economists account for cognitive ...

During a deep, self-induced trance, practitioners say their bodies move on their own, their sense of time vanishes, and the boundary between self and world blurs. A small new study found these ...

Partnered people tend to be more satisfied with their lives than singles, but a study of more than 380,000 adults in Great ...

People who scored higher on a creative drawing test tended to have stronger white matter in pathways tied to movement and ...

The more disordered a person’s brain activity became during their first psilocybin trip, the more their well-being tended to ...