This week I want to look at where we are with psychedelics, the mind-altering substances that have somehow made the leap from ...

According to a team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Tongji University and collaborating institutions, weaning ...

A research team led by Professor Oh Yong-Seok of the Department of Brain Sciences at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science ...

Mechanism of brain neuropeptide circuit reconstruction uncovered, paving the way for next-generation rapid-acting therapies beyond serotonin - Findings published in Molecular Psychiatry, a leading jou ...

Jayashri Kulkarni receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council as a Leadership Level 3 Investigator Grant, and has received clinical trials funding from pharmaceutical ...

A single dose of the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT) had a rapid and sustained effect on depressive symptoms in a small trial. DMT – a fast-acting and extremely potent psychedelic found in ...

Unlike transient innate immune activation, trained immunity is characterized by long-lasting but reversible functional reprogramming of monocytes, macrophages, natural killer (NK) cells, and ...

We often discuss depression and dementia separately, although scientists have long observed a connection between the two: People with depression appear to have a higher likelihood of developing ...

Chronic stress can damage the gut’s protective lining, triggering inflammation that may worsen depression. New research shows that stress lowers levels of a protein called Reelin, which plays a key ...

About a decade ago, many media outlets—including WIRED—zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection of mental health, drug science, and Silicon Valley biohacking: microdosing, or the practice of ...

In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers. When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging ...

Dragging yourself out of bed for a workout can be tough under any circumstances, let alone when you’re struggling with depression. But a new scientific review suggests that regular exercise can be as ...