Video Game Helps Manage ADHD, Its Maker Says

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder show signs of improvement after playing a video game for 30 minutes a day rather than taking a pill, the U.S. company developing the treatment said Wednesday. Diagnoses of ADHD have risen in recent decades; some 9.5 percent of children aged 3-17 in the United States had the condition in 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children in the pilot study — 80 aged between 8 and 12, half of whom had ADHD —...

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