{"id":108880,"date":"2020-06-19T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/in-a-landmark-decision-fda-greenlights-a-video-game-for-kids-with-adhd"},"modified":"2020-06-19T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T17:02:27","slug":"in-a-landmark-decision-fda-greenlights-a-video-game-for-kids-with-adhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/in-a-landmark-decision-fda-greenlights-a-video-game-for-kids-with-adhd","title":{"rendered":"In a landmark decision, FDA greenlights a video game for kids with ADHD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-landmark-decision-fda-greenlights-a-video-game-for-kids-with-adhd2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game, known as EndeavorRx and developed by Boston-based Akili Interactive Labs, can now be marketed as a way to improve attention function in kids with ADHD as measured by computerized testing. Physicians can prescribe it to children between the ages of 8 and 12 who have an ADHD diagnosis and have demonstrated an issue with attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/stat\/images\/stat-logo.svg\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/stat\/images\/stat-logo.svg<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The FDA has given a green light for the first time to a game-based therapeutic: Akili\u2019s video game EndeavorRx, designed to be prescribed to kids with ADHD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe game, known as EndeavorRx and developed by Boston-based Akili Interactive Labs, can now be marketed as a way to improve attention function in kids with ADHD as measured by computerized testing. Physicians can prescribe it to children between the ages of 8 and 12 who have an ADHD diagnosis and have demonstrated an issue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}