Meanstream

20/05/2019

“There’s incredible potential here”

Most of this study's participants drank far less after tripping.

08/05/2019

Washington Post: If you thought legalized ma*****na truly put the “high” in the Mile High City, wait until you hear what Denver is up to now.

Proponents say “magic mushrooms” can help with depression, chronic pain, addiction, PTSD and anxiety. Opponents say too much is unknown and don't want Denver to be a drug hotspot.

05/04/2019

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Johns Hopkins neuroscientists have found that the psychedelic drug M**A reopens a kind of window, called a "critical period," when the brain is sensitive to learning the reward value of social behaviors. The findings, reported April 3 in Nature, may explain why M**A may be helpful in treating people...

04/04/2019

Reopen

Scientists taught old mice new tricks.

29/03/2019

VICE: Hippies and hipsters are corrupting the ancient practice with psychedelic tourism. 😃

Ayahuasca was a sacred medicine. Now it's a global 'it' drug, and the trendiness is threatening the source.

28/03/2019

“Our findings tentatively raise the possibility that given in this way, psilocybin may produce sustained changes in outlook and political perspective, here in the direction of increased nature relatedness and decreased authoritarianism”

Magic mushrooms may spur people to feel more connected to nature.

28/03/2019

The New York Times: In the 1960s, mind-altering drugs like L*D helped fuel the counterculture. Today, psychedelics are turning on a new generation – of scientists.

Researchers are again looking at hallucinogens, which were demonized in the wake of the 1960s, as a way to help with illnesses of the mind.

28/03/2019

There are things known, and there are things unknown - and they’re all in Rob Chapman’s cultural history of L*D, "Psychedelia and Other Colours".

If Aldous Huxley had got his way, this book would have been titled Phanerothymia and Other Colours. That was the term Huxley proposed for the experience of taking lysergic acid diethylamide (L*D), the hallucinogenic drug first synthesised in a Swiss laboratory on the eve of the Second World War. It....

27/03/2019

"The brain might start over-interpreting, or misinterpreting," Niell told LiveScience. "And that could end up as a hallucination."

Hallucinogenic drugs seem to weaken the brain's visual processing.

27/03/2019

L*D appears to cause information to disintegrate as it is passed through a neural circuit that determines how we process internal and external stimuli.

This story is part of When the Drugs Hit, a MOTHERBOARD journey into the science, politics, and culture of today's psychedelic renaissance.

L*D appears to cause information to disintegrate as it is passed through a neural circuit that determines how we process internal and external stimuli.

26/03/2019

BBC Culture: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love emerged from the hippie culture of ‘60s California – but their ambitions were global. Benjamin Ramm looks at the books and ideas that shaped the group.

The Brotherhood of Eternal Love emerged from the hippie culture of ‘60s California – but their ambitions were global. Benjamin Ramm looks at the books and ideas that shaped the group.

25/03/2019

BBC Culture: A new play, All You Need is L*D, tracks the importance of psychedelic drugs beyond just flower power. Is it time for a third ‘summer of love’?

A new play, All You Need is L*D, tracks the importance of psychedelic drugs beyond just flower power. Is it time for a third ‘summer of love’?

25/03/2019

Medical Xpress - Medical and Health News: Researchers at Yale and the University of Zurich provide new insight into the psychedelic effects of L*D on the brain and potential therapeutic uses of the drug.

Psychedelic drugs such as L*D have a profound impact on human consciousness, particularly perception. Researchers at Yale and the University of Zurich provide new insight into the psychedelic effects of L*D on the brain and potential therapeutic uses of the drug.

25/03/2019

Tonic: Magic mushrooms improves two types of thinking important for creativity.

It improves two types of thinking important for creativity.

24/03/2019

Нещо за гледане от The Guardian:

A long-awaiting study has produced groundbreaking images of the heightened brain activity unleashed by L*D

24/03/2019

MOTHERBOARD: The effects of psychedelic drugs on neurite density is a promising sign that they may be useful in treating depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The effects of psychedelic drugs on neurite density is a promising sign that they may be useful in treating depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

23/03/2019

Време е психеделиците да бъдат изкарани от черния списък на опасните наркотици и да започнат да се предписват като лекарства за различни психични разстройства.

22/03/2019

The New York Times In the 1960s, mind-altering drugs like L*D helped fuel the counterculture. Today, psychedelics are turning on a new generation – of scientists.

In the 1960s, mind-altering drugs like L*D helped fuel the counterculture. Today, psychedelics are turning on a new generation – of scientists.

22/03/2019

The Guardian: Psychedelic drugs could prove to be highly effective treatments for depression and alcoholism.

Researchers warn that patients are missing out on potential benefits due to prohibitive regulations on research into recreational drugs

22/03/2019

CNN: Images of the brain under a hallucinogenic state showed almost the entire organ lit up with activity.

Scientists have for the first time visualized the effects of L*D on the human brain.

22/03/2019

Кратка история на психеделиците в психиатрията от The Guardian.

In the 1950s a group of pioneering psychiatrists showed that hallucinogenic drugs had therapeutic potential, but the research was halted as part of the backlash against the hippy counterculture.

21/03/2019

“Ал Джазира” с експертно мнение за ползите от психеделиците.

We ask a panel of experts if there are benefits to hallucinogenics.

21/03/2019

Същински Ренесанс изживяват психеделиците през последните 5 години. Ето как премина “първата вълна” през 60-те:

Three new books suggest that these drugs did not have the power to rewrite society, but, instead, brought on revelations concerning earthly themes.

20/03/2019

L*D e като хигс бозонът за неврологията.

Our brains, with their intrinsic tendency to segregate, are designed to veer toward over-control. Psychedelics blow all that apart – and we can learn from them

20/03/2019

L*D може да подобри познавателните способности.

But the Australian study found that not all the effects were positive.

20/03/2019

L*D размива границата между нас и останалите.

Drugs targeting the same brain networks as L*D could help patients with a variety of mental disorders

18/03/2019

I Fu***ng Love Science на гъби тематика.

Taking magic mushrooms could cause an expansion of consciousness that lasts for up to a week at a time, according to a new study in the Journal of Psychoac

15/03/2019

Know your hero.

Timothy Leary was once considered the most dangerous man in America. The king of acid and psychedelic drugs saw surfing and barrel riding as a metaphor of life. Here's what the L*D guru had to say about surfers.

13/03/2019

Ремонт на счупения мозък

13/03/2019

“By having the psilocybin experience they can see death in a whole different way and they’re much more comfortable with it.”

Australia's first shroom trial is set to take place at St Vincent's Hospital in April.

11/03/2019

Ego Death

09/03/2019

Know Your Hero.

Ken Kesey, novelist and author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," became a hero of the 1960s psychedelic counterculture.