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.
What actually prevents suicide, and what each of us can do.
How to check in on someone, what the evidence says works, the honest science on SSRIs — and how we rally together.
Read it →If you or someone you love is struggling right now, call or text 988 (US) — or reach out to someone you trust. You don’t have to carry it alone.
Validated screeners scored instantly and explained plainly; cognitive tasks; calculators and training modules. Free, no sign-in unless you want to save results.
Essays, explainers and interactive one-page sites — written the way a friend who reads too many papers would explain it. Browse by topic:
The Institute for Inner Space, HELM, and a street-art room of pixel-portrait murals.
Step inside → Podcast220+ episodes with Dr. Steve Thayer on the science and practice of psychedelic medicine.
Listen → ResearchPhase 2/3 trials in Orem — depression, generalized anxiety, schizophrenia. Now enrolling.
See the studies ↗ AboutPsychiatrist, 250+ trials as investigator, co-founder of ISR. The CV, the story, the house rule.
Meet Reid →The thoughts about food you didn't ask for — what they are, why some brains make more of them, how to measure yours, and what the evidence says turns them down.
Open →A personal caffeine dashboard: your dose, your curve, your sleep window, your dependence profile — and a taper plan if you want one.
Open → Mind & brain · Aug 30, 2026Not about sugar — about sugar pills. Placebo, its dark twin nocebo, and why expectation is a real, measurable force in every clinical trial.
Open →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 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.
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