digital therapeutics for adhd

[GeorgeC]

Yesterday, I learned that FDA-approved prescription digital therapeutics were a thing. There was a talk on this at work:

Akili Interactive

Akili Interactive is a prescription digital medicine company combining scientific and clinical rigor with the ingenuity of the tech industry to reinvent medicine.

www.akiliinteractive.com

I think this was the seminal paper:

Video game training enhances cognitive control in older adults - Nature

Training with a multitasking video game is shown to improve cognitive control abilities that decline with age, revealing the plasticity of the ageing brain; these behavioural improvements were accompanied by underlying neural changes that predicted the training-induced boost in sustained...

www.nature.com

@bbchien @lbfjrmd @WingmanMed, may be of interest...

 

[Kenny Phillips]

Does Freecell count?

 

[WingmanMed]

Sometimes it is a medication that is disqualifying because of potential side effects. But sometimes it is the condition that is disqualifying. For ADHD it is the condition that is the primary issue though traditional treatment options are also disqualifying.