MedPage Today (2/24, Hlavinka) reports that research indicated “spending 25 minutes a day with a video game-like intervention improved symptoms among adolescents with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD).” Researchers found that “among 348 adolescents, those assigned to the intervention – which involved a gaming therapy designed to improve attention and multitasking – had small but significant improvements in Test of Variables of Attention-Attention Performance Index (TOVA-API) scores at 4 weeks compared with a control group that played a similar game targeting other, non-AD/HD-related cognitive domains.” But, “patients in the intervention arm did not show significantly improved scores on parent and clinician ratings of AD/HD symptoms and functional impairment versus the control group.” The findings were published in the Lancet Digital Health.
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