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Free guides, tools and screeners for mental health, from Reid Robison, MD, a psychiatrist and clinical trial investigator in Utah. Every guide cites its sources and says so when the evidence is thin.
About 30 validated screeners, private to your browser: depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD and more.
If you or someone you love is in crisis, call or text 988 in the US, any hour. Suicide prevention guides and tools
Suicide prevention
What prevents suicide, and what each of us can do. 6 posts and 5 tools.
Psychedelic medicine
Ketamine, MDMA and psilocybin: the evidence and the risks. 10 posts and 5 tools.
Therapy
How therapy works, and the approaches I trust. 8 posts and 6 tools.
Depression & mood
What it is, what helps, and what’s new. 10 posts and 3 tools.
Psychopharmacology
How psychiatric medicines work, interact and cost. 9 posts and 3 tools.
ADHD & attention
How attention works, the medicines, and what’s new. 4 posts and 7 tools.
Mind & perception
Placebo, perception, music and the strange ordinary mind. 7 posts and 2 tools.
Body & health
Fitness, aging, the heart and the body–brain link. 6 posts and 2 tools.
Food & eating
Food noise, sugar, appetite and the eating brain. 7 posts and 1 tool.
PTSD & trauma
How trauma changes the brain, and how people heal. 5 posts and 3 tools.
Anxiety & OCD
Worry, panic, obsessions and what quiets them. 5 posts and 2 tools.
Latest
All posts- How much of the change is the molecule?
Psychedelics clearly do something. What is doing the work: the drug, the person beside you, or something neither fully owns? Adapted from my talk at Utah Fungi Fest 2026. Psychedelic medicine
- Heart Risk Navigator
What your blood pressure and cholesterol numbers mean for your heart: a calm, visual guide and 10-year risk calculator built on the AHA PREVENT equations. Body & health
- The orexin frontier
Orexin is the brain's switch for staying awake. The biology, the sleep drugs that block it, and the new orexin-2 agonists learning to turn it up. Psychopharmacology
- The reuptake era
How blocking the pumps that clear serotonin, noradrenaline and dopamine built modern psychiatry, from Prozac to centanafadine, the first triple reuptake inhibitor. Psychopharmacology
- One size fits few
Precision psychiatry: where it stands, how far it has come and where it goes next, with a plain-language guide to pharmacogenomic (PGx) test reports. Psychopharmacology
- The doubting disease
What 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
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Clinical trials in Orem, Utah
At Inner Space Research we run phase 2 and 3 trials of new medicines for depression, generalized anxiety and more. Taking part is free and closely monitored, and many studies compensate you for your time.
560 S State St, Suite D-1, Orem, UT. (801) 871-5516
I'm Reid Robison. I'm a psychiatrist, I run clinical trials, and I teach at the University of Utah. I write these guides for patients, families and other clinicians, and I build the tools I wish I'd had in clinic. Everything here is free. When the evidence is strong I'll say so, and when it isn't I'll say that too.