Soon, kids will have the chance to treat their ADHD through a new method: a doctor-prescribed videogame.
For the first time in its history, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of a videogame, even though a videogame is neither food nor a drug. The game,, requires a doctor’s prescription and is meant to help kids aged 8 through 12 treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, known as ADHD.
In the trailer, it shows the player zooming along a path with obstacles, in one instance being told to focus on catching blue enemies but ignoring the red and yellow ones. This is only conjecture, but as someone with significant ADHD, I’d imagine the idea is to train kids to maintain attention on different tasks for in-game rewards such as costumes, hypothetically improving their ability to focus on tasks in the real world.
The game is not intended to replace medication for those who need it, but rather a way to treat it as antype of therapy. It’s also worth noting that although the game looks rather rudimentary and honestly ugly, it’s designed with treating ADHD in mind, not being the next game of the year., which describes itself as a “prescription digital medicine company combining scientific and clinical rigor with the ingenuity of the tech industry to reinvent medicine.
A clinical study was done with over 600 kids, some of whom were part of the control group (which I think means they didn’t get any different treatment, but maybe it actually meant they played Remedy Entertainment’s
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