I spoke with Pete and Pam Stevens about their experience using the Neurogrow program. What do her patients say? What did you hear from them? SCHMITZ: So, Keller, that's the researcher. SARAH MORIMOTO: I definitely feel like the science has been greatly advanced by working with video game researchers and designers. Morimoto thinks the results are promising. It's got a pretty rudimentary design, but it challenges a patient's memory and reaction time. You've got a basic, colorful screen, and you might have to complete certain tasks, like watering a flower with a certain color watering can before time runs out. It doesn't exactly look like a normal video game. Sarah Morimoto, who runs this program called Neurogrow. It's from a federally funded nonprofit lab that makes games dedicated to treating cognitive disorders, mostly those in aging brains. So this isn't a game you get on the app store or PlayStation or anything like that. SCHMITZ: Keller, you start by describing a video game developed at a lab at the University of Utah. Keller Gordon reported about this for npr.org. So some researchers are hoping video games could help treat cognitive disorders from depression and ADHD to mental decline from aging. Video games can amuse or distract, sometimes inspire, which means they engage the brain with tasks.
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