(Luda311/iStock/Getty Images Plus) If you consumed a wild mushroom and suddenly started seeing tiny people around you, you ...

Magic mushrooms have been used in traditional ceremonies and for recreational purposes for thousands of years. However, a new study has found that mushrooms evolved the ability to make the same ...

A woman with advanced dementia appeared to regain speech and independence after psilocybin. The findings are intriguing, but ...

Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychedelic compound that is the active ingredient in certain types of mushrooms (also called magic mushrooms), long used by Indigenous communities in parts of ...

Scientists found that the magic behind so-called “magic mushrooms”—psilocybin, a psychedelic compound—has evolved at least twice in mushrooms, and in very different ways. Researchers in Germany and ...

Psilocybe cubensis, a mushroom that produces the psychoactive compound psilocybin. Felix Blei / Leibniz-HKI Researchers don’t know exactly how psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in psychedelic ...

In 2016 psychiatrist Benjamin Kelmendi was treating two patients with severe, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) at a Connecticut mental health center when the patients abruptly ...

Scientists are exploring a new way to harness the medical promise of psychedelic compounds without the mind-bending side effects. Researchers created modified versions of psilocin — the active form of ...

How can we live longer? The eternal question, and one that scientists have long been trying to answer. But one new study seems to suggest that psilocybin, found in so-called “magic mushrooms”, could ...