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 JoeMerchant on Saturday August 08 2020, @06:44PM (1 child)
Same shit went down in the U.S. 50+ years ago. Think you've got a problem that needs help? Oh, we'll help you, right out of school into an institution that you can get a preview of in this documentary [wikipedia.org].
Learn to act normal, or suffer the consequences - it's as simple as that when nobody has the means to do anything more for you.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 08 2020, @07:25PM
And when they emptied those state mental hospitals 50 years ago, we had the start of the SJW movement. Coincidence?