Regarding Your Nov. 6 story "FDA Permits Test of Ecstasy as Aid in Stress Disorder": The reason Alan Leshner of the National Institute on Drug Abuse knows "of no evidence in the scientific ...

Ecstasy may skew emotional detection by fitting our vision of someone’s mood with rose-colored glasses. Ecstasy improves mind-reading—your ability to correctly guess what someone is feeling ...

Researchers suggest that repeated use of MDMA, known as ecstasy, may boost self-reported "emotional empathy." A thought-provoking U.K.-based study was published recently on the use of 3,4 ...

The experience I describe is not, I think, uncommon, particularly among women. American culture nurtures a robust association between our emotional expression and shame.

“Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond” at the University of Queensland’s Art Museum probes ecstatic emotion in its secular, psychological and sexual forms.

VideoThe following is a 20-minute talk I gave this week at re:publica, Germany's largest digital media conference, in Berlin. My notes follow the video below. Sometimes I get a little fed up at my ...

Alexander Shulgin, the researcher who transformed MDMA from an obscure chemical to a party drug known as Ecstasy, has died at his home in Northern California. He was 88, and the cause was liver ...

Researchers are looking into the therapeutic benefits of MDMA, also known as ecstasy or Molly, for severe PTSD. They say it may be cheaper and work better than other therapies.

Thirdly, ecstasy increases the release of two other hormones, noradrenaline and cortisol, which are known to be essential to trigger emotional learning, including the process that leads to fear ...

Will the use of ecstasy as therapy turn into the Kool-Aid acid test of the 21st Century? MSNBC-TV's Joe Scarborough talks to two doctors about the physical and social impact of this proposed remedy.

Ecstasy may skew emotional detection by fitting our vision of someone’s mood with rose-colored glasses. Ecstasy improves mind-reading—your ability to correctly guess what someone is feeling ...