A new video-game therapy has shown promise in treating attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, according to a new study. 'This study is designed to assess whether the video-game therapy works -- specifically, to see if it improves attention -- and the video game did just that,'
A new video-game therapy has shown promise in treating attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, according to a new study.
Symptoms of ADHD include difficulties in sustaining attention, impulsivity and restlessness that results in functional impairment. Successful ADHD treatments also tend to include therapeutic components, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, which retrains people in how to think and how to act in particular situations.
Researchers developed a video game designed to improve attention in children by creating multitasking challenges adapted to their individual skillsets. In the study, 350 children ages 8 to 12 who had ADHD but hadn't yet been prescribed drugs were divided into two groups -- one that used the newly created video-game therapy, and another that played a regular video game.The children in each group spent four weeks playing their assigned game for 25 minutes per day, five days per week.
Dr. Neha Chaudhary, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a co-founder of Brainstorm, Stanford's Lab for Mental Health Innovation, largely agreed with Kollins' assessment.
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