Play This Video Game and Call Me In the Morning

Play This Video Game and Call Me In the Morning. Local startup Akili Interactive Labs is on the hunt to create the first FDA-approved, doctor-prescribed video game. Yes, you read that correctly. The one-year-old company is working on creating an iPad-based game that could actually treat mood or behavior disorders, like ADHD. How? We don’t know either and the company’s keeping their cards close to the chest. But if they can pull it off, it’s the sort of technological leap that would not only earn them a potential fortune, but it could be — excuse the pun — a therapeutic gamechanger. [Xconomy]