Just like shoulder pads and bleached tips, drugs fall in and out of fashion with the scientific and medical establishment. And perhaps none is having such a renaissance moment as MDMA. Whether you ...

A small proof-of-principle trial suggests MDMA-assisted therapy may be feasible and effective for depression, but open-label ...

"I stabbed myself in the neck and the wrist with a knife," said former Marine Scott Ostrom. "I just wanted the pain to stop." A series of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs by Denver Post photographer ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder is one of the most common mental health conditions in the world, with an estimated six out of every 100 people in the United States alone experiencing PTSD at some point ...

There's excitement and controversy swirling around the potential use of MDMA for treating post-traumatic stress disorder. On Tuesday, a panel of advisers to the FDA will evaluate the data. MDMA is ...

The drug MDMA has had some highs and lows since United States lawmakers made it illegal in 1985. Also known as ‘ecstasy,’ the drug made a name for itself as the fuel for the party scene of the 1990s.

MDMA-assisted treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder “represents real hope for long-term healing,” health experts say. In 2012, Nigel McCourry, a former Marine, took part in a Phase 2 trial of ...

A federal advisory committee on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly against of the use of MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The novel treatment has the ...

In 2019, neuroscientist Gül Dölen’s laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, found that the psychedelic drug MDMA resensitizes the brains of adult mice so they can learn from ...

A second large phase 3 clinical trial found that the psychedelic MDMA, alongside psychotherapy, is an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) MDMA is currently illegal in all ...

Some call the drug "ecstasy" or "molly." Researchers are calling it a potential tool to help treat loneliness. As public health experts sound the alarm on a rising loneliness epidemic in the United ...

PTSD is typically treated with therapy and sometimes medications, under the care of a psychiatrist. SDI Productions/Getty Images As a psychiatrist and an expert in neurobiology and treatment of PTSD, ...