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Video Game Approved as Prescription Medicine:
This summer, a video game became available by prescription in the United States. This first-ever FDA-approved digital treatment builds on a tradition of gaming as a therapeutic tool that extends back more than a decade. Its game play gets good reviews, too.
[...] On 15 June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its approval of a first-person racing game called EndeavorRx. Boston-based Akili Interactive Labs, maker of the game, says its racer was originally licensed from the lab of Adam Gazzaley, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco. The company touts four peer-reviewed studies (in PLOS One, The Lancet Digital Health, The Journal of Autism, and Developmental Disorders) as well as one paper in process as support for its claims that EndeavorRx significantly improves clinical markers of attention in patients with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).
"EndeavorRx looks and feels like a traditional game, but it's very different," says Matt Omernick, Akili cofounder and the company's chief creative officer. "EndeavorRx uses a video-game experience to present specific sensory stimuli and simultaneous motor challenges designed to target and activate the prefrontal cortex of the brain.... As a child progresses in game play, the technology is continuously measuring their performance and using adaptive algorithms to adjust the difficulty and personalize the treatment experience for each individual."
(Score: 2) by Booga1 on Saturday August 08 2020, @04:47PM
Based on the response, you are probably spinning your wheels trying to get them to make a point without destroying their own credibility.
What people don't realize about those "straight A" students is that the grading systems there are a bit different from the ones in the US. Over there an "A" grade can be an 85. On top of that, students who are doing poorly were often proactively removed from school and resigned to a life of manual labor. This is especially true of rural children who then simply joined the family working on the farm. This leads to grade inflation and makes it tough to truly compare China to other countries. Further complicating the situation is that China's compulsory education stops at 9th grade, 10th-12th are optional.
Regardless of all that, China does indeed have issues with video gaming being seen as addictive and detrimental to society. They banned all video game consoles back in 2000, but lifted the ban about five years ago. The likelihood of China approving a game as a medical treatment is practically zero.