A compound found in psychedelic mushrooms may have antiaging properties. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have found ...

A compound found in psychedelic mushrooms may have antiaging properties. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have found ...

Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic chemical in certain mushrooms known as magic mushrooms. Eating mushrooms that contain psilocybin can have a variety of effects, ranging from euphoria to ...

The effects of taking shrooms can last 3 to 6 hours. The drug may stay in your system for 24 hours or more, depending on how much you take, your body composition, and a few other factors.

"Magic" mushrooms achieve their psychedelic effects by temporarily scrambling a brain network involved in introspective thinking like daydreaming and remembering, a new study reports.

Alcohol and shrooms interact because they can affect the brain in some of the same ways. Combining substances that act similarly intensifies the drugs’ effects, side effects, and potential risks.

Magic mushrooms are often eaten whole or crushed into a powder. Although you can smoke shrooms, it may not give you the psychedelic effects you desire.

Scientists have figured out why magic mushrooms make you have weird and wacky hallucinations. Psilocybin, one of the psychoactive ingredients in magic mushrooms, impacts a region of the brain ...

Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound found in some mushrooms, has been found to improve mood, cognition and motor symptoms in Parkinson’s patients, according to a new study.

A typical microdose is 0.1 to 0.3 grams of dried psilocybin mushrooms, as compared with the 25-milligram pill of psilocybin that creates the full-blown psychedelic experience.

Psilocybin is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for depression or any other condition, and more research is needed to understand its effects, the team said.