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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. 15 posts and 5 tools.
Therapy
How therapy works, and the approaches I trust. 11 posts and 6 tools.
Psychopharmacology
How psychiatric medicines work, interact and cost. 12 posts and 3 tools.
Mind & perception
Placebo, perception, music and the strange ordinary mind. 12 posts and 2 tools.
Depression & mood
What it is, what helps, and what’s new. 10 posts and 3 tools.
ADHD & attention
How attention works, the medicines, and what’s new. 4 posts and 7 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.
New: the perception lab. Slide through colour, breathing surfaces, trails and geometry to see how psychedelics change what you see, and how we put that into words.
Latest
All posts- Was it the pill?
Placebo, nocebo and how to tell what a new medicine is really doing to you: a guide for patients and clinicians, with an animated two-room trial and the psychedelic placebo problem. Psychopharmacology
- When the trip doesn't end
Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder from the neurons up: why edges go fuzzy, how common HPPD really is, who's at risk, what helps, and what the psychedelic trials are finding. Psychedelic medicine
- Ten signposts out of the woods
Ten playful meditations I've taught for a decade, reread as a psychiatrist: the stories, what the research says about each one, and a way to try every practice on the page. Mind & perception
- The hidden therapist
Music is the one thing we deliberately put inside a psychedelic session. How a sound wave becomes a feeling, what psychedelics change along the way, and why the playlist may matter more than we admit. Psychedelic medicine
- The life of an adverse event
How a participant's words become a code, a table in a package insert and, years later, a label change, and why session-based treatments and psychedelics strain the system. Psychopharmacology
- Meditation, deconstructed
A field guide to training attention: what meditation is, what it changes, what the trials actually show, how to begin today, and where the mystery still lives. Mind & perception
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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.