Large multi-center study to test videogame-like digital therapy as (potentially) FDA-cleared ADHD treatment

By SharpBrains | May 10, 2016

Akili Labs recruits for ADHD tri­al with ambi­tions of FDA clear­ance for dig­i­tal med­i­cine (Med­C­i­ty News) “Akili Labs has kicked off open enroll­ment for a clin­i­cal tri­al of its Project EVO video game plat­form in a quest to secure for 510(k) clear­ance from the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion for its lead indication

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Upcoming online course on ADHD treatments to include com­ple­men­tary 1‑year treat­ment mon­i­tor­ing system

By SharpBrains | April 24, 2015

. Great news: Sharp­Brains’ upcom­ing course How to Nav­i­gate Con­ven­tion­al and Com­ple­men­tary ADHD Treat­ments for Healthy Brain Devel­op­ment will include a com­ple­men­tary treat­ment mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem for 1‑year to course par­tic­i­pants. Based on Dr. Rabin­er’s guid­ance, a soft­ware ven­dor has devel­oped an online sys­tem that 

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Study: An innovative telehealth service to provide high quality ADHD treatment

By Dr. David Rabiner | March 24, 2015

. An unfor­tu­nate real­i­ty is that many chil­dren with ADHD do not have access to high qual­i­ty, evi­­dence-based treat­ment for ADHD. This is espe­cial­ly true in rur­al com­mu­ni­ties where chil­dren are gen­er­al­ly treat­ed by pri­ma­ry care providers who may have less ADHD-spe­­cif­ic train­ing than child psy­chi­a­trists and where

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To improve academic outcomes, children with ADHD need both medication and non-medication treatments

By Dr. David Rabiner | March 11, 2015

. Aca­d­e­m­ic prob­lems are extreme­ly com­mon in chil­dren with ADHD, and often the issue that leads to refer­ral for an ADHD eval­u­a­tion. Aca­d­e­m­ic out­comes can be mea­sured in 2 dif­fer­ent ways — aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment and aca­d­e­m­ic per­for­mance — and both are com­pro­mised in chil­dren with ADHD. Aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment refers to the infor­ma­tion and skills that children…

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ADHD & the brain: Does ADHD treatment improve long-term academic, social and behavioral outcomes?

By Dr. David Rabiner | March 3, 2015

. The ADHD chal­lenge The core symp­toms of ADHD fre­quent­ly cause sig­nif­i­cant impair­ment in aca­d­e­m­ic, social and behav­ioral func­tion­ing that adverse­ly impact indi­vid­u­als’ qual­i­ty of life. These symp­toms often per­sist into adult­hood, poten­tial­ly com­pro­mis­ing an indi­vid­u­al’s func­tion­ing over many years. Under­stand­ing how ADHD impacts long-term func­tion­ing, and whether adverse long-term affects are dimin­ished with treat­ment, is

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