Can the hallucinogenic drug LSD make you more creative?

While studies into LSD still face stigmas, in the past several years, scientists have found potential small-scale, fascinating effects on perplexing regions of health, including addiction, depression and terminal cancer….

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Now the journal Language, Cognition and Neuroscience has published the first study…since the 1960s to explore the relationship between the drug and language.

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“[T]he findings might potentially help with therapeutic psychedelia used to help treat, among other illness, depression: “The effects of LSD on language can result in a cascade of associations that allow quicker access to far away concepts stored in the mind.”

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