ABOUT The Author
About The Author
Paul Riddoch
Paul Riddoch was born in the UK , educated at Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham, and St Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK. He lives in Canada with his family, and travels frequently to the UK.
He has thirty-five years experience as a systems and hardware engineer in the automotive, military, commercial, communications and space industries.
In 2010 he lobbied Canadian MPs for the development and deployment of modern, non-dual use, humanitarian radio in Afghanistan to “merge the cultures” by promoting mutual understanding. Additionally, the concept attracted interest in India and from the US
National Science Foundation. Such technology may enable diplomacy to penetrate more deeply into polarised regions.
He is a caregiver for a person with schizophrenia spectrum. The book SixthSense was resultant from ideas based upon routine engineering; i.e. proving of products for mass production. This entails taking data from many product units (patients), grouping the defects (DSM-5) and adding instrumentation to support further investigation (medical wearables).
He likens the writing of the book to “adding layers to an onion” with problems to find and solve at each layer. His investigation led from advocating the use of wearables in the hospital to the need for national databases (big data).
Given sparse progress on schizophrenia in the last decade, he has interests in neurology. He promotes hypotheses linking conventional relief procedure e.g. electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), with alternative relief processes e.g. head nodding and neck massages.
