Ryūta Kawashima
Ryūta Kawashima ( Japanese 川島 隆 太 , Kawashima Ryūta ; born May 23, 1959 in Chiba Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese neuroscientist . Kawashima achieved worldwide fame primarily through the video game named after him, Dr. Kawashima's brain jogging for the Nintendo DS .
Life
Kawashima studied medicine at Tōhoku University and went through the postgraduate program there. Since then he has specialized in researching the individual regions of the human brain and training options. He placed particular emphasis on developing and maintaining learning skills. After teaching at the Karolinska Institute near Stockholm , Sweden , he became an associate professor at Tōhoku University, where he now heads the Functional Brain Imaging Center .
His first book, Train Your Brain: 60 Days To A Better Brain , in which he published his research results in the form of exercises, sold more than 1.2 million copies in Japan . Due to popular demand, it was also released in the UK in 2007. In this work also based Dr. Kawashima's brain jogging , where Kawashima explains to the player the brain teasers to be completed as a virtual professor and comments on the results. He didn't expect such a big success, so he donated the entire profit of $ 11 million (as of April 2008) to the treatment of strokes .
Fonts
- Train your brain. 60 Days to a Better Brain. Penguin Books Ltd, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84614-004-4 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kawashima, Ryūta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 川島 隆 太 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese neuroscientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chiba Prefecture , Japan |