Doctor Reid · a research lab for the mind · Orem, Utah

Inner space, under the microscope.

Free, evidence-based explainers, tools and screeners for the mind — organized by what you came here to understand. Every claim cites its source, or says "we don't know yet."

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Medicines & dosing · Oct 1One size fits fewPrecision psychiatry: where we are, how far we’ve come, and where we go next — including a plain-language guide to pharmacogenomic (PGx) test reports.Food & eating · Oct 1No one chooses thisFor families: what eating disorders are, where they come from, what starvation does to the brain, what treatment works — and what to say and do.Food & eating · Oct 1Gluten is (usually) not the enemyCeliac disease, gluten sensitivity, fructans and the nocebo effect — and why a gluten-free diet matters so much in eating disorders.Anxiety & OCD · Oct 1The doubting diseaseWhat OCD is, where it comes from, how it's measured, why it travels with anorexia — and how exposure therapy works, with a guided practice you can try.Anxiety & OCD · Oct 1The worry engineGeneralized anxiety disorder up close, the whole DSM anxiety family, validated self-checks for each, an interactive anxiety map — and the single-dose MM120 (LSD) trials.

Elsewhere in the lab.

Measure & trainThe screener library30 validated scales and tasks, scored and explained. Long readsWhite papersFully referenced briefings, PDF and web. PodcastPsychedelic Therapy Frontiers220+ episodes with Dr. Steve Thayer. ExhibitThe Institute for Inner SpaceA walk-through 3D museum. ArtThe art roomStreet art, photography and creative code. ReferenceReceptor Bloom ↗About 95 medicines, drawn as flowers.
Inner Space Research · boldly going inward

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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.

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Reid Robison, MD
Principal investigator's note

I'm Reid Robison — psychiatrist, clinical trial investigator, co-founder of Inner Space Research, adjunct faculty at the University of Utah. This is my lab, my field notebook, and a sandbox for the tools I wish existed. 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

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