Truth serums refer to various mind-altering drugs that are used to draw out the truth from people. The first drug to be ...

Once vilified under the pretense of the War on Drugs, psychedelic substances are gaining popularity among researchers as promising treatments to mental ailments. Psychedelics are a type of substance ...

I’m an entrepreneur and just so happen to be in the business of providing other entrepreneurs with financial advice. But I don’t typically offer up the usual status quo advice that tells you ...

As a way of adapting to their environment, several plants have evolved to produce certain chemical compounds called secondary metabolites. These, when ingested by humans, cause a variety of ...

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing ... We know of only one other means of altering a memory, which we will get to in a moment. As of now, we do not know how to target specific memories ...

As science and medicine advance, here's a thought experiment about how we could treat our criminals differently from Oxford University's Rebecca Roache. Roache envisions a future where we can use ...

of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality; the threat of imminent death the threat that another person will imminently be ...

The Philosophy & Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome submissions for the sixth annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference to b ...