Akili's Eddie Martucci: "The world's first prescription video game"

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Akili's Eddie Martucci: "The world's first prescription video game"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:51:04
• Published: 2022-12-16 11:37

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Eddie Martucci, co-founder and chief executive of Akili Interactive, to talk about making the first prescription video game (3:40), the original pitch (6:10), sweeping the floors of his parents’ pharmacy (13:20), how he landed on video games as medicine (16:40), why ADHD is more present that it used to be (19:00), targeting a “weak link” in the brain (24:00), how the game algorithmically hones it treatment to each player (27:55), targeting conditions like depression and MS (29:40), getting insurance and health systems to pay for it (33:00), looking abroad (43:30), and running a public company (46:40).

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