I became a neuroscientist to help us understand how humans gain deeper insight and observation into themselves, life, and being during altered states of consciousness. I never expected to write a post ...

In “A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega-Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life,’’ Ayelet Waldman writes: “[I]n 1906 . . . [e]ighty percent of addicts were upstanding citizens, ...

People looking to get an extra edge at work are turning to an illegal drug to boost their focus and creativity. They are microdosing LSD, which involves taking small amounts of LSD about twice a week.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Ayelet Waldman greets me at the door of her two-story home in Berkeley, ...

During the initial, pre-vaccine days of the pandemic, Diane, a primary care provider in the D.C. area, saw dozens of her patients die. She started having nightmares, and as the months went on, she ...

We just ran the first ever pre-registered scientific study on the microdosing of psychedelics and found some very promising results. We compared people who microdose—that is, who take a psychedelic ...

We just ran the first ever pre-registered scientific study on the microdosing of psychedelics and found some very promising results. We compared people who microdose — that is, who take a psychedelic ...

It was a trip out of my comfort zone that prompted me to jump on the microdose train. I was in another state covering a cannabis conference, far away from my quiet office and laptop, when an old ...

She’s a novelist, Harvard-trained lawyer and former public defender, mommy-blog lightning rod, and one half of a major literary It couple—and now Waldman, 52, has written about a last-ditch hope to ...