One of the quickest ways to kill a conversation, for example, is to start telling someone ... and under-studied psychedelic drugs: DMT, or, if you speak chemistry, N,N-dimethyltryptamine.

DMT has a long history dating back thousands of years. Indigenous cultures have often used it in religious rituals. For example, there is evidence of its use in Trinidad at the time of Spanish ...

For example, Professor Michael Winkelmann, a medical anthropologist specialising in psychedelics and shamanism, writes that there may be a significant overlap between these DMT entity encounters ...

A new study published in Molecular Psychiatry suggests that the fast-acting psychedelic compound 5-MeO-DMT can reduce anxiety-like behavior in stressed mice while altering the expression of genes ...

That stands for dimethyltryptamine — technically N,N-Dimethyltryptamine — and it's a chemical found mainly in some South American plants. When vaporized, smoked or brewed into ayahuasca ...

In June, the FDA tested two Diamond Shruumz chocolate bars and found they contain a compound called 4-acetoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, also known as 4-acO-DMT. One of the products also contained ...

Psychedelics are gaining increasing attention in psychiatry. Psychedelics, including DMT, may help reduce alcohol dependence. University College London researchers are conducting a new study.

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a compound found in various plants and animals that's used as a mind-altering drug. In large enough doses, DMT can give you a "high" and distort your senses so that you ...

N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a hallucinogenic tryptamine drug that naturally occurs in many plant species. It can also be made in a laboratory. DMT produces effects similar to those of ...