by Agnes D | Sep 23, 2022 | Wellbeing
Imagine that you are in a plane, thinking the flight is going smoothly but in reality both pilots in the cockpit have fallen asleep. Does it sound like a Hollywood scenario? Sadly enough it happens in real life with the most recent example being when an Ethiopian Air...
by Agnes D | May 2, 2022 | Wellbeing
In the last 12 months, the issue of the mental health of athletes has burst into the public eye via numerous high profile media stories. In professional, amateur, and college sports, the number of suicides and athletes suffering from a Mental Health issue is...
by Matthew So | Mar 12, 2022 | Technology
Unsupervised, Multivariate Statistical Anomaly Detection for Data with Complex Distributions Anomaly detection is a field within machine learning that has been thoroughly explored, with methods from k-nearest neighbor, to isolation forests, to clustering. But what if...
by Agnes D | Mar 12, 2022 | Technology
From the dawn of time, humans have tried to understand each other by looking at their faces and listening to their voices. It has led to the development of the practice of Physiognomy, which means assessing a person’s character or personality from their outer...
by Gregory M | Oct 9, 2021 | Wellbeing
It’s very easy to develop beliefs based on shaky assumptions or half-baked facts. I can readily admit that my beliefs were wrong when it came to UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) pilots, the challenges they face, and how their mental health can have a wide range of...
by Cole Huntley | Aug 11, 2021 | Wellbeing
In a 2008 editorial in The American Journal of Psychiatry, Thomas R. Insel M.D. estimated that, “serious mental illness is associated with an annual loss of earnings totaling $193.2 billion” within the US economy. His analysis is not an anomaly. A diverse range of...
by Jordan Narins | Aug 4, 2021 | Wellbeing
We say that we live in a better world than we did yesterday, but is that true? A few weeks ago, one of the most prominent tennis players in the world was fined and threatened with disqualification when she refused to participate in post-match press conferences. Naomi...
by Charis Yoon | Jun 14, 2021 | Wellbeing
The CAGE questionnaire, developed in 1968, is a brief assessment containing four questions that is used by doctors to check for signs of potential alcohol dependency (alcohol abuse or alcoholism). The acronym, CAGE, makes the questions easy to remember: Have you ever...
by Charis Yoon | Jun 14, 2021 | Wellbeing
The Trail Making Test, created by neuropsychologist Ralph Reitan in the 1940s, is a neuropsychological test of visual attention and task switching. The assessment consists of two parts which require the participant to connect a set of 25 dots with accuracy in as short...
by Charis Yoon | Jun 14, 2021 | Wellbeing
The Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) was designed in 1989 by Doctors Lauren B. Krupp, Nicolas G. LaRocca, Alfred D. Steinberg, and nurse Joanne Muir-Nash. It is a 9-item scale that measures the severity of fatigue and its effect on the participant’s daily activities and...
