There is no connection between the use of psychedelic drugs and mental health disorders, two recent studies have shown, challenging popular media and political narratives. Instead, certain psychoactive substances can actually help combat the harm of mental illness and prevent...

LSD, ecstasy, magic mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs could be used to treat mental health problems like anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder and addiction, a new study suggested. It is more than 40 years since Harvard University researcher Timothy Leary...

A research team at Columbia University soon hopes to show whether or not ibogaine, an extract of iboga — a psychoactive West-African plant medicine — may have unique benefits in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The majority of existing research...

Being an empath means you’re at greater risk of feeling all the negative energy of the people around you. This can lead anyone down a path of anxiety and depression. Empathic people are especially susceptible to it. So what...