DMT, a chemical found in ayhuasca, produces an intense roughly 20-minute trip if it's injected. Scientists say they newly understand how the drug acts on the brain from two types of imaging.

Losing your sense of self is a common part of a dimethyltryptamine (DMT) trip, but what actually happens in the brain when this occurs? Researchers at Imperial College London and collaborators ...

Scientists have gleaned new insights into how psychedelics alter conscious experience via their action on brain activity. In a study at Imperial College London, detailed brain imaging data from 20 ...

Brain image shows significant "hyper-connectivity" induced by DMT. On a spectrum, yellow refers to "strong" connectivity, while orange is medium and red is "mild."Chris Timmermann ...

A compelling new study has revealed how a mammalian brain can produce an incredibly powerful hallucinogen called DMT. The research shows the psychedelic is endogenously produced in a number of brain ...

If you look through user testimonials about tripping on ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic tea containing the psychedelic compound DMT, the stories are absolutely wild. It's been used for centuries by tribes ...

N,N-dimethyltryptamine, more commonly known as DMT, is one of the most powerful psychedelics known to humankind. “The DMT experience is one in which people report going into a different dimension, an ...

Scientists have completed the first ever placebo-controlled investigation of the effects of the hallucinogen DMT on resting brain activity, according to a new study. Dimethyltryptamine is a ...

Popular psychedelic DMT has been found naturally occurring in a mammalian brain, researchers have announced. The findings come from the University of Michigan's Michigan Medicine, where scientists ...

The study results show that show that DMT not only shrinks the size of brain damage caused by stroke but also restores crucial brain functions by mending the blood-brain barrier (Image: Pexels) In a ...