LSD was accidentally discovered by Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz pharmaceutical company in Switzerland in 1938. It was apparently useless, but from 1947 it was marketed as “a cure for everything from ...

LSD reduced symptoms of anxiety in a midstage study published Thursday, paving the way for additional testing and possible medical approval of a psychedelic drug that has been banned in the U.S. for ...

A new study finds that a single dose of LSD can ease a person's anxiety for months. This could give legitimacy to research on a range of psychedelics. A rigorous new study finds that a single dose of ...

A new study suggests that lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, could reduce anxiety. This marks the first-ever trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of MM120 (a pharmaceutical ...

A single dose of the psychedelic drug LSD seems to reduce anxiety without lasting side effects. “Ours is the first modern trial to look specifically at LSD, or any psychedelic, for generalised anxiety ...

The study enrolled 198 adults with anxiety at 22 sites across the U.S. Once a symbol of 1960s counterculture, the drug lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD, is emerging from research labs ...

Encouraging outcomes from a clinical study on the LSD-analog substance MM120, or lysergide d-tartrate, have led the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to designate it as a “breakthrough therapy” for ...

A rigorous new study finds that a single dose of LSD can ease anxiety and depression for months. The study involved 198 adults with generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, a disabling form of anxiety ...

A single dose of an investigational lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)-based medication known as MM120 (lysergide D-tartrate, Mind Medicine Inc [MindMed]) was associated with a rapid and significant ...

Source: By IndependentOo, Dominik from Germany, Maximilian IV, Laitche, NASA; composite artwork by Belbury - CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Working in his lab at the pharmaceutical company Sandoz in 1938, ...