Akio Mori is a Japanese physiologist, sports scientist and writer.
13 Facts About Akio Mori
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Akio Mori is the founder and the former head of the Japanese learned society Japanese Society of Health and Behavior Sciences.
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Akio Mori claimed that the brains of people who played video games were physically damaged.
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Akio Mori's activities expanded into other genres such as journalism and politics due to the popularity of his books, though his theory about human brains was pointed out to be pseudoscientific.
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Akio Mori researched the human actions of sports such as kendo along with two other researchers, announcing the collaborative work "Two types of movement-related cortical potentials preceding wrist extension in humans" via the journal NeuroReport in July 2001.
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Akio Mori established the Japanese Society of Health and Behavior Sciences in 2002, becoming the board chairperson of the society.
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Akio Mori attained the degree of Doctor of Medicine, but did not become interested in researching the relationships between video games and human neuroscience until he met a programmer of computer software around 2000 when he made a new electroencephalograph.
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Akio Mori commenced research into the effects of video games on a child's mind.
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Akio Mori has cited various violent crime committed by juveniles who played video games to support his position.
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Akio Mori's position is that playing video games can cause damage to a child's brain, but the theory was heavily criticized.
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In 2004, Akio Mori claimed that the brains of people who used mobile e-mails were damaged, calling those "mail brain".
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Akio Mori recommend Iida Denshi's Nocho series highly as intelligible goods with his research.
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In 2008, Akio Mori resigned from the head of the Japanese Society of Health and Behavior Sciences, being replaced by Shinji Murakami of Hokkaido University.