Mind & perception
Placebo and expectation, perception, music and emotion: the strange, ordinary workings of the mind.
22 posts, 1 tool and 1 screener, last updated Oct 19, 2026. Short link: doctorreid.com/mind
- Midnight in your bodyJet lag, sleep loss and your brain's clock, with a planner for your tripNov 2, 2026
- A fair testHow drug trials work, why placebo is so strong, and the numbers that matterOct 29, 2026
- Turning down the volumeSeventy years of antipsychotics, read through their bloomsOct 28, 2026
- Psilocybin is my friendThe experiences that changed lives, and the numbers on when it goes badlyOct 24, 2026
- How to read a bloomA field guide to the receptor blooms, with ninety-five to play withOct 23, 2026
- Happy birthday, Dr. LearyWhat to keep and what to leave of Timothy Leary, on his birthdayOct 22, 2026
- Loaded, not firedPsychiatric genetics and heritability, from the genome upOct 21, 2026
- Talking about trauma, with careHow to ask, how to listen, and what not to sayOct 19, 2026
- Unfinished businessEmotion science, part 2: why the argument in the shower never endsOct 18, 2026
- The empty chairEmotion science, part 1: chair work, where it came from, and why anger healsOct 18, 2026
- The mat is a laboratoryWhy I practice yoga, what the science says, and a fact-check of my own keynoteOct 12, 2026
- Waking up is not growing upAdult development, the midlife passage, and the laundryOct 11, 2026
- The accelerator and the brakeSeventy years of teen slang, comics, and the adolescent brainOct 10, 2026
- The ninety seconds afterWhat to do in the gap between a trigger and your reactionOct 9, 2026
- Solve for nowTen equations of meditation, each with an experiment to runOct 9, 2026
- What emotional intelligence actually isThe evidence on EI: what it is, what it predicts, how to train itOct 9, 2026
- Coming home to the bodyInteroception, embodiment, and guided ways back into the bodyOct 8, 2026
- Was it the pill?Placebo, nocebo, and how to tell what a medicine is really doingOct 6, 2026
- When the trip doesn't endHPPD: when visuals linger after psychedelics, and what helpsOct 5, 2026
- Ten signposts out of the woodsTen playful meditations, with the research behind eachOct 5, 2026
- The hidden therapistHow music works inside a psychedelic sessionOct 5, 2026
- Meditation, deconstructedA field guide to training attention, and how to begin todayOct 3, 2026
- One size fits fewPrecision psychiatry and pharmacogenomic (PGx) testing, explainedOct 1, 2026
- Gluten is (usually) not the enemyCeliac, sensitivity, nocebo, and gluten in eating disordersOct 1, 2026
- Why does that chord feel sad?An interactive lab on why music feels the way it doesSep 14, 2026
- Sugar & Shadow: the placebo effectPlacebo and nocebo: why expectation is a measurable forceAug 30, 2026
- Seeing ThingsWhy psilocybin, sleeplessness and a failing eye make the same visionsAug 24, 2026
- Your attention isn't brokenWhy focus feels broken, and how to train it backAug 21, 2026
- Signposts inwardSmall experiments in paying attention, walked like a path through the woods. With the stories and science in Ten signposts out of the woods.Tool
- Attention tasksCPT, Stroop and signal detection.Screener
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