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World's largest psilocybin brain-imaging study maps how context reshapes psychedelic effects
A landmark five-year study by Monash University has found psychedelics reorganize brain patterns, giving clinicians powerful new insights into their therapeutic potential.
Study finds sustained benefit for people using Oregon psilocybin services
People participating in an Oregon Health & Science University-led study of state-regulated psilocybin services reported relief from symptoms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder—with almost two-th...
Would You Recognize Abuse in Ceremony? If So, What Do You Do?
"The Psychedelic Seeker's Guide" dives into abusive practitioners and what you should do if you witness abuse in psychedelic settings. [...] Read More... The post Would You Recognize Abuse in Ceremony? If So, What Do ...
Safety and Mental Health Outcomes of Oregon State-Regulated Psilocybin Services
This cohort study (n=346) of clients using Oregon's state-regulated psilocybin services, who received a mean dose of 31.9 mg, found reduced rates of moderate-to-severe depression, anxiety and PTSD symptoms at three mo...
Psychedelics align brain activity with context
This brain imaging study (n=62) used fMRI and EEG to examine brain activity before and after psilocybin during rest, meditation, music and films. Psilocybin reorganised brain activity into structured patterns that ref...
Scoop: Johnson & Johnson to Lead Delix Therapeutics’ $85M Series C
Weekly Psychedelic Policy Briefing – August 16, 2026
Resilient Pharmaceuticals has resubmitted its New Drug Application for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, without the new Phase 3 trial the FDA asked for. Canada funds a C$24 million cannabis and brain health consortium,...
Paving the Way: Husseini Manji on Spravato’s Lessons for Psychedelic Drug Development
Dr. Husseini Manji’s affiliations are quite the laundry list: a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford with adjunct and visiting positions at Yale and Duke, as well as serving as co-chair of the UK govern...
Psychedelic exposure during adolescence disrupts a brain circuit linked to lasting social avoidance in rats
Psychedelics, drugs that alter people's perceptions, mood and thoughts, have recently shown promise for the treatment of some psychiatric disorders. Yet many psychedelic drugs remain controlled substances in most coun...
SciSparc: Subsidiary NeuroThera Labs Completes C$5.4 Million Financing with SciSparc’s Stake Valued at Approximately C$30 Million
SciSparc Invests C$2.7 million and holds approximately 44.6% of NeuroThera’s issued and outstanding common shares following the financing TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SciSparc…
Tuning in together: LSD enhances inter-brain synchrony and felt connectedness in romantic couples
This randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study (n=25 couples) found that LSD (50 μg) increased feelings of love, closeness, trust and being in sync, while reducing loneliness, in healthy romantic pa...
Altered ‘state’ vs Altered ‘sense of self’
Psychedelic culture has given us a powerful image of transformation: the self dissolves, the familiar world disappears, and somehow we return, from the other side, changed. It is the territory associated with the larg...
Definium Therapeutics Announces New Employee Inducement Grants
NEW YORK, August 17, 2026--Definium Therapeutics, Inc. ("Definium" or the "Company"), a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company developing a new generation of therapeutics intended to address…
What’s the difference between recreational and therapeutic psychedelic use? 5 Questions with experimental psychologist Harriet de Wit
De Wit discusses the difficulty of finding out what a drug does, outside of its context.
World Ayahuasca Forum Brings Ancestral Intelligence to Spain
PLUS, an interview with an iconic Grateful Dead artist, ayahuasca and loneliness, and Puerto Rico's executive order. [...] Read More... The post World Ayahuasca Forum Brings Ancestral Intelligence to Spain appeared fi...