What if I told you an app could treat addiction or that a video game could treat depression? These things actually exist, and they are on the cutting edge of medical technology. Of course apps and video games are nothing new, but they are being used in completely new ways to treat things that were once difficult or expensive to treat, and the results are extremely promising.
Apps to treat addiction sound callous, but the fact is that many people fail at addiction treatment because treatment is costly, it’s based on outdated models, and there is extremely limited bedspace at facilities. Apps can be used in conjunction with outpatient treatment with great success as they can go anywhere the patient goes.
Video games are able to learn and adapt when being used to treat patients with different kinds of conditions, and they have proven to be a great way to improve executive functioning, working memory, selective attention, and more.
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