A person with naturally occurring synesthesia experiences the sensory world in overlapping layers. Sounds are seen as colors and tastes are processed as sounds. Overall, there are 60 documented forms ...

A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to produce vivid hallucinations, even when a person’s eyes are closed. Studies ...

Science just answered a question many of us have been curious about: What does the human brain look like on drugs? Though the answer definitely varies from drug-to-drug, a group of London scientists ...

In a series of experiments, scientists have gained a glimpse into how the psychedelic compound affects brain activity. The team administered LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) to 20 healthy volunteers ...