Inner space,
under the microscope.
Free, evidence-based tools to help you understand yourself, ease mental and emotional suffering, and learn to thrive. Every claim cites its source — or says "we don't know yet."
Reid Robison, MD — psychiatrist, principal investigator,
and the first subject in every experiment here.
Clinical trials, contemplative practice, and honest informatics — combined into free tools for understanding the mind.
From the blog: the latest field notes.
"Field notes" is what I call the posts — essays, explainers and interactive pages, written the way a friend who reads too many papers would explain it.
Keeping people safe. What actually prevents suicide, and what each of us can do.
A psychiatrist’s field guide — written to safe-messaging guidelines, with 72 sources.
Open →- How to check in on someone — with scripts
- What the evidence says actually works
- The honest science on SSRIs and suicide
- Build your own safety plan
Ketamine and the suicidal crisis
What we know, what we don't — and a new white paper (PDF) that separates rapid relief of suicidal thinking from the unanswered question of prevention.
Read → Mind & brain · Aug 27, 2026How therapy works
Your brain doesn't perceive the world — it predicts it. An evidence-graded guide to the predictive brain and why talking to someone changes it.
Open → Mind & brain · Aug 24, 2026Seeing Things
The neuroscience of hallucination — how a brain builds what isn't there, from migraine auras to psychedelics to the voices in schizophrenia.
Open →The lab has three rooms.
Everything built here lives in one of them. Start anywhere — the doors are all unlocked.
Tools
01Every good study starts with a baseline — including a study of yourself. Validated instruments, scored instantly and explained plainly; then the sweat lab, where attention, breath, heat and cold get trained.
- PHQ-9depression · 2 min
- GAD-7anxiety · 2 min
- ASRSadult ADHD · 5 min
- Y-BOCSOCD severity · 5 min
- Attention tasksCPT · Stroop · SDT
- ROCSthe 7-item OCD screen
Blog
02How the molecules, meals, and mind games actually work. Essays, explainers and interactive one-page sites — written the way a friend who reads too many papers would explain it.
- Keeping people safe★ featured · Mind & brain
- Ketamine and the suicidal crisisPsychedelic therapy
- How therapy worksMind & brain
- Seeing ThingsMind & brain
Discover
03The studies that decide what psychiatry looks like next — running right now in Orem. Plus the conversations and papers that come out of them.
- Enrolling trialspsychedelic & CNS · free
- The registryhear about new studies first
- Farther Shore Institutethe nonprofit
- From the lab recordMM120 for GAD · JAMA Psychiatry 2025
Help us find out what works.
Phase 2 and 3 trials of psychedelic and next-generation CNS medicines — depression, generalized anxiety, schizophrenia, and more. Participation is free, carefully monitored, and often compensated.
I'm Reid Robison — psychiatrist, clinical trial investigator, co-founder of Inner Space Research, adjunct faculty at the University of Utah. This site is my lab notebook turned inside out: the mission is to freely offer evidence-based tools and information that help people understand themselves, ease mental and emotional suffering, and learn to thrive. Everything here is free. When the evidence is strong, I'll say so. When it isn't, I'll say that too.
Signed · Reid Robison, MD MBA · the management- Berman RM, et al. Antidepressant effects of ketamine in depressed patients. Biol Psychiatry. 2000;47(4):351-354. doi:10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00230-9
- Zarate CA Jr, et al. A randomized trial of an N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist in treatment-resistant major depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2006;63(8):856-864. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.63.8.856
- Zeidan F, et al. Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: evidence of brief mental training. Conscious Cogn. 2010;19(2):597-605. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2010.03.014
- Jha AP, Krompinger J, Baime MJ. Mindfulness training modifies subsystems of attention. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2007;7(2):109-119. doi:10.3758/CABN.7.2.109