[pogue]

Here's a video of a doctor playing the game along with sort of an explanation of how it works and is meant to do.

I'd be curious to know how much this costs for patients. I'm guessing it's some type of a subscription model.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qkhSLr6DlWc

[contravert]

Watching the video, it's not really clear how this game is substantially different than a normal mobile game. What is the actual mechanism here for treating ADHD?

[lewispollard]

If the gameplay amounts to what's in the video, it seems to be based on a poor or at least vastly simplified understanding of what ADHD is, seems to be training some a simple kind of multimodal attention and context switching between simultaneous things, but pretty much any complex video game will do that. Being designed around that premise seems to be taking the name "attention deficit" a bit too literally given the wide array of symptoms that have little to do with that kind of skill. Anecdotally, as someone with ADHD, I seem to be naturally better at that kind of "doing 2 things at once" skill than my peers anyway. Perhaps we're just seeing a tiny slice of the game and there's a lot more to it, but my experience of healthcare software and startup culture makes me think no, that's probably the entirety of the game, dressed up in some technobabble and references to medical journals/papers without much actual evidence-based efficacy.

[romwell]

Placebo effect for parents who pay money for this, I assume.