Brain-training iPad game aims to help people with schizophrenia

Researchers at the University of Cambridge said slow progress is being made towards developing a drug treatment and the game, called Wizard, can help where drugs have so far failed.

The game has been found to improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at work and to live independently.

Episodic memory – the type of memory required to remember where you parked your car or where you left your keys – is one of the facets of cognitive functioning to be affected in patients with schizophrenia and there are as yet no licensed pharmaceutical treatments to improve it.