Dr. Kawashima

Reached a new level yesterday, I forgot to post the info but here it is:

Kawashima was born May 23, 1959 in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

In 2001 Ryuta Kawashima conducted a study at Tōhoku University in Japan, claiming that frontal lobes are not stimulated during video game playing sessions. However scientists widely dismissed his study after he claimed that the lack of stimulation could potentially stunt brain development and negatively affect people's ability to control their behaviour. Kawashima found no direct evidence for permanent brain damage.

In 2003, Kawashima 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. He later participated in the development of two more games for the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare service, both of which taking some puzzles from the previous Brain Age titles while featuring new puzzles as well. Rather than accept them for himself, he has used the royalties from the game (estimated in 2.4 billion yen) to build two laboratories.

In 2007, an English language version of Train Your Brain: 60 Days to a Better Brain was published by Penguin Books.

In June 2009, Namco Bandai released another video game featuring Kawashima entitled Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima for the iPhone OS platform.

Also in June 2009, German developers Chimera Entertainment and BBG Entertainment released "Train your Brain with Dr. Kawashima" for PC and Mac.

 

Source: Wikipedia