Thanks for letting us interview you, Dr. O’Brien. Would you mind introducing yourself to our audience—where do you work, what do you do? I’m Louise O’Brien, an Associate Professor at the Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Neurology, at the University of Michigan. My work focuses mostly on sleep disruption in pregnant women and its […]
In my last blog post, I talked about the power and potential for biophysics engines to contribute to clinical care and ragged on my own ability to play video games. The short version of it, if you don’t have time to circle back: If you’re going to make a digital twin of somebody, base it […]
One of the highest stakes moments of my life was the time in graduate school when I was (badly) playing Donkey Kong at Pinball Pete’s Arcade, and a very, very good Donkey Kong player came over to watch me play in silence. I’d just spent six dollars worth in quarters dying repeatedly on the first […]
We sat down to talk with Dr. Goldstein on what she sees as the future of wearables in the sleep clinic. Enjoy! Thank you for taking the time to meet with me today! Could you take a minute to introduce yourself and say a little about what your job is? Cathy Goldstein, MD. I’m a […]
Rods, cones, and…ipRGCs? For almost a century and a half, it was believed that the mammalian retina only had two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones. That assumption was not proven to be false until some studies in the late 1990s proved the existence of a third kind mammalian photoreceptor that differed greatly from rods […]
Circadian Phase Estimation and Deep Learning One of the most common questions we get at Arcascope is: “Can’t you just do circadian phase estimation using machine learning?” Living in the data age, we have become used to thinking that big data and machine learning can do just about anything. In this post, I will break […]
So you want to get somebody’s internal time from a wearable… Let’s talk about wearable data. On the one hand, wearables are an incredible innovation, allowing self-quantification and anomaly detection with unprecedented ease, at unprecedented scales. On the other hand, they’re a data science nightmare. Or three nightmares, really. Nightmare #1: All the devices are […]
Here’s the thing about the name: I wanted to capture what I thought was most exciting about our company, Arcascope. Sure, you can sleep better by taking care of your circadian rhythms, but circadian rhythms are about a lot more than just sleep. And yep, we’re a circadian rhythms company, but we’re one founded by […]