About

Glenn R. Fox PhD is associated with neuroscience, creativity, and entrepreneurship. The webpage highlights his focus on these areas, indicating his expertise in understanding the neural basis of creative processes and entrepreneurial activities. His work appears to involve exploring how emotion, mindfulness, and aesthetic experiences influence human behavior and decision-making. The content suggests that he is engaged in projects related to well-being, gratitude, and lifestyle, emphasizing a holistic approach to neuroscience and creativity. However, specific details about his background, research contributions, or academic history are not provided in the available text.

Research topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Psychiatry
• Medicine
• Psychology
• Demography
• Applied psychology
• Medical education
• Management
• Multimedia
• Physical therapy
• Computer graphics (images)
• World Wide Web
• Gerontology
• Social psychology

Selected publications

• A grateful space: understanding a range of gratitude experiences

  The Journal of Positive Psychology · 2024-11-22

  article1st author
  PublisherDOI

• Personal autonomy and self‐determination are crucial for professionalism in healthcare

  Anatomical Sciences Education · 2023-04-04 · 3 citations

  editorialOpen access

  In our role as medical educators and researchers, we support in the strongest manner possible the personal autonomy and self-determination of our students, patients, and colleagues. A fundamental value of the medical profession is for the patient to have personal autonomy in their healthcare decisions, including how they would like to be identified. It is, and will continue to be, an important priority to be taught and encouraged throughout healthcare education,1 and it begins in the anatomy laboratory with the proper and respectful treatment of body donors.2 Learning this value continues with respecting and accepting this same autonomy in fellow students, staff, faculty, and patients. There are some who question whether foregrounding the value of personal autonomy and the right to self-identification in health professions education is an appropriate use of resources and teaching time in an already crowded curriculum. Let us be clear: understanding this value and addressing it in the correct language3 are of paramount importance to the well-being of all involved in healthcare and should be a recurring theme throughout their education and career.4 Personal autonomy is one of the four pillars of bioethics and is a strong antidote to the paternalism and mistakes of recent eras of healthcare delivery. Any individual should be able to make their personal identity known without fear or ridicule, and this is especially important in healthcare fields. Time and resources should be devoted to educating our future healthcare professionals in the proper way to address patients, students, and colleagues. This should occur during all phases of healthcare education and should be practiced and exemplified by those who teach in healthcare. Appropriate identification of individuals, and their right to choose how they wish to be identified, is a fundamental tenet of healthcare professionalism and demands recognition as an integral principle of human rights. Complete healthcare starts with a thorough understanding of the patient, and that includes respect of personal autonomy. Acquiring skills and knowledge around the appropriate application of such principles is necessary as one of many essential components of medical education and training.

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Diverse predictors of early attrition in an elite Marine training school

  Military Psychology · 2021 · 2 citations

  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Applied psychology

  Reconnaissance Marine training is deliberately difficult, to assure that graduates have the capabilities required to function successfully in the high-risk military occupational specialty. The majority of training attrition is due to voluntary withdrawal and previous research has identified certain predictive factors such as demographics, mental status, and physical performance. While some characteristics of training attrition have been identified, there is still a lack of understanding related to an individual's profile that is more apt to complete Recon training. Retrospective survey data was analyzed from 3,438 trainees within the Reconnaissance Training Company. Surveys were related to trainees' military recruitment history and other military experience, prior life experience, athletic experience, self-identified personality characteristics and motivations, and reasons for voluntary withdrawal if applicable, as well as physical performance metrics. Various demographic factors, self-reported hobbies, motivations, aquatic experience, and physical performance were associated with success in Recon Marine training courses. Subjects who voluntarily withdrew from training most commonly cited mental stress and aquatic rigor as the reason and less commonly cited reasons were physical and family reasons. These results could potentially increase training success, but more research is needed to understand the relationships between the observed trainee characteristics and success in elite warfighter training.

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• Dissection Tutorial Video Series: a BlueLink Resource

  The FASEB Journal · 2020-04-01

  articleSenior author

  First year medical and dental students at the University of Michigan do not receive formal dissection training as part of their foundational human gross anatomy courses. As a result, many students do not know proper dissection techniques when they begin their dissection on the first day of lab, and often resort to learning by trial and error, or by observing faculty and teaching assistants as labs progress. In an attempt to help students feel more prepared and alleviate some of the anxiety associated with the first day in the gross labs, a series of short videos were produced to discuss and demonstrate the different aspects of dissection. The videos were provided as an adjunct to the first year medical and first year dental curricula on the BlueLink website, as well as on the BlueLink YouTube channel. Feedback data is collected from University of Michigan medical and dental students regarding the usefulness of this video series via surveys. In addition to University of Michigan students, these videos could be a useful resource to students at other institutions that also might not provide formal dissection instruction. As of November 2019, the views for each video ranges between 800 and 1900 views, with an average of 1300 views per video in the series.

  PublisherDOI

• Continuous Measurement of Reconnaissance Marines in Training With Custom Smartphone App and Watch: Observational Cohort Study

  JMIR mhealth and uhealth · 2020 · 18 citations

  • Medicine
  • Psychology
  • Physical therapy

  BACKGROUND: Specialized training for elite US military units is associated with high attrition due to intense psychological and physical demands. The need to graduate more service members without degrading performance standards necessitates the identification of factors to predict success or failure in targeted training interventions. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to continuously quantify the mental and physical status of trainees of an elite military unit to identify novel predictors of success in training. METHODS: A total of 3 consecutive classes of a specialized training course were provided with an Apple iPhone, Watch, and specially designed mobile app. Baseline personality assessments and continuous daily measures of mental status, physical pain, heart rate, activity, sleep, hydration, and nutrition were collected from the app and Watch data. RESULTS: A total of 115 trainees enrolled and completed the study (100% male; age: mean 22 years, SD 4 years) and 64 (55.7%) successfully graduated. Most training withdrawals (27/115, 23.5%) occurred by day 7 (mean 5.5 days, SD 3.4 days; range 1-22 days). Extraversion, positive affect personality traits, and daily psychological profiles were associated with course completion; key psychological factors could predict withdrawals 1-2 days in advance (P=.009). CONCLUSIONS: Gathering accurate and continuous mental and physical status data during elite military training is possible with early predictors of withdrawal providing an opportunity for intervention.

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• Learning Anatomy Through Yoga

  The FASEB Journal · 2020-04-01

  article

  The aim of this project is to provide a unique tool for anatomy students of all levels to apply common physical activities in the process of learning anatomical structures and functions. The practice of yoga was chosen to demonstrate the dynamic anatomical components of the upper and lower limbs through a variety of poses. This is explored through a series of videos: ‘Learning Anatomy through Yoga’. This series was developed with a fourth year medical student at the University of Michigan, who is also a certified yoga instructor. During the musculoskeletal sequence in April, first year medical students will assess the efficacy of this resource via surveys. In the future, the ‘Learning Anatomy through Yoga’ video series will be part of a broader project that demonstrates functional anatomy in everyday physical activity, such as weight lifting, rowing, pilates, etc. Instructor demonstrating specific attachment points on skeleton Figure 1

  PublisherDOI

• Building a Virtual Anatomical Library: BlueLinkVR

  The FASEB Journal · 2020 · 1 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

  The University of Michigan BlueLink project provides expert reviewed and produced anatomical resources, specializing in cadaveric multimedia and curricular materials. BlueLink has begun developing a library of virtual (3D) resources. Using a Shining 3D EinScan‐Pro structured light scanner, osteologic and plastinated specimens are digitized and a 3D scan is produced within EinScan software. Initial scans focus on capturing the gross 3D details of the whole specimen. Once the scan is complete a combination of Meshmixer, Maya, and Blender are used to clean the models and finalize them both structurally and aesthetically. Sketchfab serves as our primary tool for distributing and annotating models. We provide all finalized models as free resources on Sketchfab, which provides an excellent platform to embed resources within our existing BlueLink website.

  PublisherDOI

• Student Perceptions of the Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in Anatomical Dissection Teams: a Two Year Study

  The FASEB Journal · 2020-04-01

  article1st authorCorresponding

  With the marked increase of diversity and inclusivity teaching initiatives at the University of Michigan, the Division of Anatomical Sciences’ faculty developed a research plan to investigate what aspects of diversity and inclusion are of most importance to students. A pre‐ and post‐survey regarding student perceptions of the importance of diversity and inclusion in anatomical dissection teams was distributed to two cohorts of students in the U‐M DENT 545 (Summer 2018 & 2019). The majority of students considered the Anatomy curriculum to be inclusive, but differed considerably in how important they considered diversity to be within a dissection team. Certain aspects of diversity had notably higher scores for providing positive contributions to a dissection team (race/ethnicity, gender/gender identification, culture, and age), which other aspects scored comparatively lower (political perspective, (dis)ability status, and religious commitments). Additionally, some qualitative comments provided actionable insights on how to improve an inclusive environment.

  PublisherDOI

• The evolution of a lab practical: The role of learning modality in assessment

  The FASEB Journal · 2019-04-01

  article

  Curricula may fail to assess the incongruences between the various methods of learning employed by students and assessments. In the University of Michigan Human Anatomy course (ANAT 403), students are provided with physical specimens to study in lab, as well as cadaveric images developed by the BlueLink project. Lab practicals were first offered with physical specimens, and were later replaced with projected BlueLink cadaveric images. As images were used for both student studying and assessment, it was hypothesized that using other sources of cadaveric images for lab practicals would create more of a challenge for students. Assessment data was collected and compared from Fall 2017 that utilized BlueLink images during the exam, and from Fall 2018 that use published atlas images. Instructors were constant. While some variation exists within the data, no overall statistically significant effects on test scores were found between the two virtual testing strategies. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .

  PublisherDOI

• Continuous Measurement of Reconnaissance Marines in Training With Custom Smartphone App and Watch: Observational Cohort Study (Preprint)

  2019-03-22

  preprintOpen access

  <sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Specialized training for elite US military units is associated with high attrition due to intense psychological and physical demands. The need to graduate more service members without degrading performance standards necessitates the identification of factors to predict success or failure in targeted training interventions. </sec> <sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> The aim of this study was to continuously quantify the mental and physical status of trainees of an elite military unit to identify novel predictors of success in training. </sec> <sec> <title>METHODS</title> A total of 3 consecutive classes of a specialized training course were provided with an Apple iPhone, Watch, and specially designed mobile app. Baseline personality assessments and continuous daily measures of mental status, physical pain, heart rate, activity, sleep, hydration, and nutrition were collected from the app and Watch data. </sec> <sec> <title>RESULTS</title> A total of 115 trainees enrolled and completed the study (100% male; age: mean 22 years, SD 4 years) and 64 (55.7%) successfully graduated. Most training withdrawals (27/115, 23.5%) occurred by day 7 (mean 5.5 days, SD 3.4 days; range 1-22 days). Extraversion, positive affect personality traits, and daily psychological profiles were associated with course completion; key psychological factors could predict withdrawals 1-2 days in advance (&lt;i&gt;P&lt;/i&gt;=.009). </sec> <sec> <title>CONCLUSIONS</title> Gathering accurate and continuous mental and physical status data during elite military training is possible with early predictors of withdrawal providing an opportunity for intervention. </sec>

  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Kathleen Alsup

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  14 shared

• B. Kathleen Alsup

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  12 shared

• Mona Sobhani

  Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences

  7 shared

• Sarah Dudgeon

  Yale University

  6 shared

• Cristina R. Prall

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  6 shared

• Leslie A. Saxon

  University of Southern California

  6 shared

• Josiah Duhaime

  University of Southern California

  5 shared

• Rebecca Ebert

  Florida Department of Citrus

  5 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Neuroscience

  University of California, Los Angeles

  2005

• M.S., Neuroscience

  University of California, Los Angeles

  2001

• B.A., Psychology

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1998