Ryuta Kawashima

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Ryūta Kawashima

Kawashima as he appears in Brain Age

Prof. Ryuta Kawashima, MD (川島隆太, Kawashima Ryūta^?) (born May 23, 1959) is the Japanese neuroscientist who was made famous because of his appearance in the Nintendo DS game Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!^[1]

1 Career
2 Publications and Releases
3 Biography
4 References

[edit] Career

One of his primary research topics include mapping the regions of the brain to certain human faculties such as emotion, language, memorization, and cognition. The other involves applying this information to aid children to develop, aging people to retain, and patients to recover their learning facilities.^[2]

[edit] Publications and Releases

In 1994, he authored Train Your Brain: 60 Days To A Better Brain, which was a great success in Japan. When released worldwide, it sold more than 2.5 million copies. A handheld stand-alone unit was later developed, and in 2005 was turned into Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! for the Nintendo DS. A sequel has since been released and a third installment is planned.

[edit] Biography

Dr Kawashima was born in 1959 in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. In the 1970s he enrolled in Tōhoku University. After graduating with an MD at the school of medicine he emigrated to Sweden to become a guest researcher at the famed Karolinska Institutet. He then moved back to Tōhoku and is resident Professor. (Associate Professor, Assistant Professor and now Tenured Professor). He is somewhat a neuropsychologist, also trained in neurophysiology. He is unsurprisingly famous in Japan. He is a former member of Japan's National Council, concerning Language and Culture. He is consummate at brain imaging.