Games-just what the doctor ordered

摘要

IMAGINE getting a prescription to play a computer game. It could happen: Brain Plasticity, the developer of a cognitive training game, has begun talks with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the game as a therapeutic drug. Brain Plasticity has been fine-tuning a game to help people with schizophrenia improve deficits in attention and memory. They will soon conduct a study with 150 participants who will play the game for one hour, five times a week over six months. If participants' quality of life improves at that "dosage". Brain Plasticity will push ahead to gain FDA approval.