FDA Approves Video Game as ADHD Therapy for Kids

Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 08:40 in Health & Medicine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first video game therapeutic as a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, based on research by UC San Francisco’s Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD. In 2013, Gazzaley published a paper in Nature reporting that six weeks of training with a video game called Neuroracer, in which the player […]

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