A new neuroscience study reports that the psychedelic compound DMT disrupts a key brain rhythm linked to self-awareness.

In a controlled study, researchers used DMT and watched adults' brain activity change as their usual "sense of self" slipped ...

A new EEG analysis shows that DMT reduces structure in theta, alpha and beta brainwaves, shifting neural activity away from its usual balance between order and randomness. Larger disruptions were ...

Scientists have completed the first ever placebo-controlled investigation of the effects of the hallucinogen DMT on resting brain activity, according to a new study. Dimethyltryptamine is a ...

General anesthesia is supposed to switch us off, yet patients often report emerging from the void with the eerie sense that ...

In April, Imperial College London launched the Centre for Psychedelic Research, a first-of-its-kind facility focused on the study of mind-altering substances. While much of that research has centered ...

When people use a psychedelic called dimethyltryptamine (DMT), they experience a temporary loss of their sense of self. DMT interacts with a frequency of brain activity associated with ...

A $1.5 million gift to UC San Diego will help fund a research program into the biological and psychological effect of a powerful psychedelic in humans, it was announced Tuesday. N, ...

One of the most powerful psychedelics known, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) has been described as causing imaginative visuals akin to the dream state. It is typically consumed on its own or in ayahuasca ...

How are we to use the extraordinary power of psychedelics to help us penetrate the mysteries of consciousness? In our ordinary states of mind, consciousness, self and free will all seem real but in ...

How are we to use the extraordinary power of psychedelics to help us penetrate the mysteries of consciousness? In our ordinary states of mind, consciousness, self and free will all seem real but in ...

A $1.5 million gift to UC San Diego will help fund a research program into the biological and psychological effect of a powerful psychedelic in humans, it was announced Tuesday. N,N-dimethyltryptamine ...