For five years, the woman had mostly stopped speaking. She was in her 80s, Japanese-American, and had lived with a diagnosis ...

A woman with advanced Alzheimer's reportedly showed significant brain function improvements after taking psilocybin mushrooms, per a case report.

Mushroom products purchased from smoke shops across San Diego await testing at Infinite Chemical Analysis Labs on the city's north side. (Hayne Palmour IV/For The Times) Beneath the psychedelic colors ...

Magic mushrooms are better known for producing hallucinations and altering people's sense of reality than for treating brain diseases. Most people associate them with tripping rather than Alzheimer's ...

A recent Alaska Airlines flight where an off-duty pilot’s alleged psychedelics-induced outburst exposed passengers and crew to serious risk has prompted the question: What exactly happens to your ...

Paul Stamets has been a forty year overnight success. Fresh on the back of $60 million of new investment for his start-up MycoMedica, the undisputed magic mushroom king is firing on all cylinders this ...

Scientists have amassed genome data for dozens of "magic mushroom" isolates and cultivars, with the goal to learn more about how their domestication and cultivation has changed them. The findings, ...

A man nabbed by police was shocked to discover he mistakenly picked death cap mushrooms instead of the magic variety.