Somewhere between medicine and controversy sits a mushroom. For decades, psilocybin lived in the shadows. The naturally ...

For five years, the woman had mostly stopped speaking. She was in her 80s, Japanese-American, and had lived with a diagnosis ...

A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than monosyllables in years began initiating conversation ...

A woman with advanced Alzheimer's reportedly showed significant brain function improvements after taking psilocybin mushrooms ...

Magic mushrooms are better known for producing hallucinations and altering people's sense of reality than for treating brain ...

Psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, remains illegal in California. Despite that, many companies operate as if psychedelics are legal, some even using them during wellness ...

Medical experts say the improvements are "remarkable" ...

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 ...

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A Chinese man, high on magic mushrooms and alcohol, tried to climb out of his 27th-floor flat to become immortal. He was ...