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Breastfeeding mothers can feel reassured by new research that has found that taking antidepressant treatment does not negatively impact their baby's brain development.

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As the holiday season gets underway, so too does the drinking. Now experts are raising the alarm about potentially deadly ...

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Scientists have used a specially engineered virus to help track the brain changes caused by psilocybin in mice, revealing how ...

Recent studies of psychedelic therapy, using substances like psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, show rapid and lasting improvements to conditions like depression and addiction. One ...

The investigation shows how profit-driven psychiatry and compromised regulators created a crisis of violence masked as ...