Imagine playing a video game where data about you in the moment is being collected with sensor technology, performance metrics, emotional responses, body movements, brain activity. And this is all used in real time to guide the environment you're experiencing, personalizing both the challenges and rewards to improve your cognition.

No, this isn’t the plot of a sci-fi movie.

We’re in the midst of a cognition crisis and experiences are a powerful way of changing our brain, says Adam Gazzaley, neuroscientist, neurologist, inventor, author, photographer, entrepreneur, investor, and creator of the first ever digital medicine, and the first ever FDA cleared digital treatment for children with ADHD.

In this incredible episode of Summa & Friends, Adam explains why the cognition crisis is getting worse on a global scale, especially for our children, and why his digital medicine was born out of a frustration at the lack of research and treatment that we as a species should have developed by now.

To find out more, download and listen.

On today’s podcast:

What is digital medicine and who is it for?
What is the cognition crisis
Why we need a multi-modal approach to improving cognition
The enduring nature of experiential medicine

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Ep #15: Navigating the Cognition Crisis With Digital Medicine