Ryuta Kawashima

Ryuta Kawashima (Japanese川岛 隆 太, Ryuta Kawashima, born 23 May 1959 Chiba Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese neuroscientist. Worldwide gained fame Kawashima mainly by the eponymous video game Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo DS.

Life

Kawashima studied medicine at Tohoku University and went through into the post- graduate program. Since that time, he specialized in the study of the various regions of the human brain and possibilities of training. He laid particular emphasis on the development and maintenance of learning skills. After teaching at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, he was associate professor at Tohoku University, where he founded the Institute of Functional Brain Imaging Centre now runs.

From his first book, Train Your Brain: 60 Days To A Better Brain, in which he published his research results in the form of exercises, he sold more than 1.2 million copies in Japan. Due to popular demand it was released in the UK in 2007. In this work is also based Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training, where the player Kawashima explains the tasks to be completed Puzzle as a virtual professor and commenting on the results. He did not expect such a success, so he donated for the treatment of stroke the entire gain of $ 11 million (as of April 2008).

Works

• Train Your Brain: 60 Days to a Better Brain. Penguin Books Ltd, 2007, ISBN 1846140048