Dr. Richard S.E. Keefe (Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina) discusses an article looking at an intervention for major depressive disorder that takes the form of a videogame. Afterwards, AJP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin discusses the July issue’s theme.

Keefe interview: [01:00]
What were your results? [03:13]
What do videogames offer as a depression intervention? [03:43]
Differences between the intervention and the control intervention [05:05]
What was the impact of the interventions? [06:51]
What were the limitations of the design and what might change going forward? [08:10]
Does the patient’s perception of the effectiveness of the intervention matter? [09:20]
How the intervention differs from a similar intervention aimed at children [10:19]
Is there an advantage to “hiding” the intervention as a videogame? [11:33]
Designing a game and an intervention that work simultaneously [13:27]
What next for your research? [15:05]
Kalin interview [16:11]
Keefe et al. [16:22]
Tabuteau et al. [18:15]
Ge et al. [20:54]
Pan et al. [22:01]
Tamm et al. [23:47]
Pizzagalli [25:30]
Grogans et al. [26:02]

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July 2022: Digital Intervention for Cognitive Deficits in Major Depression

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