
#226 - The Price of Distraction
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The State of Accessibility of Telomere Change
Akili Interactive has created a video game called neuroacer that is now approved as a medical device to treat inattention in children with ADHD. It's the first non-drug digital treatment for ADHD and the first video game that has been cleared by the FDA for any medical condition so it's pretty exciting. Akili spent a decade developing a way better game from the point of view of art music story reward cycles from neuro racer but preserve the underlying mechanics and closed loop features that was was in neuro racer. The meta train game that I just described even though we're writing our third paper now is still accessible really only through research and research colleagues in collaboration, he says.
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