Finnish Doctors Are Prescribing Video Games For ADHD

Daniel_Stuckey writes "Ville Tapio runs a private psychiatry center in Helsinki, and psychiatrists had told him they were reluctant in particular to hand out drugs for patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ADHD drugs are psychostimulants, they are frequently abused, and kids can be prescribed them young and kept on a regimen for years. Tapio had an idea to do it better. His alternative? Getting people with mental health concerns to play video games. They're special video games, of course — ones that can change how your brain works, with a technique loosely termed gameified neuroplasticity therapy."

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Who said the can do this

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously the United States has a shitload of Jewish property law lawyers who can compel Finland to stop violating the rights of children and force these evil doctors to prescibe good old laboratory tested peer reviewed pharmacueicals. Isn't Finland a signatory to the WTO. Doesn't this mean that the U.S. can compel the use of these life saving pharacuticals. Can't we get the United Nations involved. If people in Finland stop using our drugs, Jews in our country will be forced to spend less time on the golf coase, and will not be able to get this years BMW. This is positivlely anitsemintic