Video games are now being approved for treatment of ADHD. The game can be legally marketed and sold as a medicine in the United States. The game developed by Akili Interactive and called EndeavorRx, can be played on iPads or iPhones. It’s meant to be used for kids between eight and twelve years old with ADHD.
Getting the game approved wasn’t easy, it took seven years of clinical trials that studied over 600 kids with ADHD to decipher whether or not the game could actually make a difference. The company states that “Improvements in ADHD impairments following a month of treatment with EndeavorRx were maintained for up to a month.”
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Kollins S, et al. A novel digital intervention for actively reducing severity of
paediatric ADHD (STARS-ADHD): a randomised controlled trial. February 24, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(20)30017-0