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5 Marcar para revisão Read the text bellow: 2020 it became the first such game to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the treatment of ADHD in Currently only available on prescription from doctors in the US, EndeavorRx at first glance looks very similar to countless other games You control a little alien that races on a spaceship through different worlds having to collect things But the app-based game was developed in conjunction with and is designed to stimulate and improve areas of the brain that play a key role in attention function The idea is that it trains a child with ADHD to both better multitask and ignore with a computer algorithm measuring his or her performance and customising the difficulty of the game in real time When doctors prescribe the child's parents get sent an activation link that is needed before the game will play. Kelcey says she was little but at the end of 2020 Owain started a three-month playing the game for 25 minutes a day. He then did another round last year. "He admitted it was a little harder than he expected," she says. "But understood that was doing it to help improve his He remained super motivated despite the difficulties and frustrations that came along with it." After each of Owain's sessions she noted his daily behaviour in the app, and tracked his Soon she started to see small, positive changes in his For example, getting ready for school had become smoother and there were no negative messages from And after failing fifth Owain subsequently shot up to getting As and Bs for his "It has been amazing to see my son so successful but more seeing him have confidence in himself," Kelcey "He is no longer upset and confused about why he just does not get Eddie Martucci, chief executive of Akili, the Boston-based tech firm behind EndeavorRx says the game has been designed to boost cognitive Retrieved from: The complex sentence "Kelcey says / she was a little sceptical" is divided in two parts. These parts are A active/processive active/stative active/active