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John Krakauer

John Krakauer, MD

Neurology

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • English

14 Insurances Accepted

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Gender

Male

About John Krakauer

Professional Titles

  • Director, the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Neurology

Background

Dr. John Krakauer is a Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, and Director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Krakauer's clinical interest is stroke, including ischemic cerebrovascular disease, subarachnoid and intracerebral hemorrhage, arteriovenous malformation, cerebral vasculitis, cerebral aneurysm, and venous and sinus thrombosis.

He received his bachelor's and master's degree from Cambridge University, and his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. After completing an internship in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, he returned to Columbia University for his residency in Neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York. He subsequently completed a research fellowship in motor control in the Center of Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia and a clinical fellowship in stroke at the Neurological Institute at Columbia University Medical Center.

Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

  • Helping Hand: Robots, video games, and a radical new approach to treating stroke patients. New Yorker (11/23/15)

    Watch: How stroke patients can rewire their brains, STAT (11/13/2015)

    Hopkins' new video game may pave way for stroke therapy, Baltimore Sun (10/15/2014)

    “I Am Dolphin”: where dolphins, gaming and neuroscience meet, Washington Post (10/10/2014)

    Could a video game be the key to stroke recovery?  National Geographic (9/30/2014)

    Becoming the Dolphin, Health Canal (08/10/2014)

    Research On Video Games And Mental Health, NPR's Diane Rehm Show (11/27/2013)

Additional Academic Titles

Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Lab Website

  • Kata Design Studio - Lab Website
    • The work of the Brain, Learning, Animation and Movement Laboratory can be broken down into four main areas.

      1. Tracking recovery after stroke using functional and structural imaging, non-invasive brain stimulation, psychophysics and clinical scales.
      2. A mouse model of stroke to examine the interaction between spontaneous biological recovery, training protocols, and drugs such as SSRIs.
      3. The development of interventions early after stroke that combine immersive gaming environments with 3D exoskeletal robotics and non-invasive brain stimulation.
      4. Tracking recovery of multi-tasking using video-games in patients who recover and return home after TBI-induced coma.

Research Summary

Dr. Krakauer's research focus is in the general area of experimental and computational motor control with a particular focus on how motor learning occurs in the brain, and how such learning is affected by lesions.

Additional areas of research interest:

  1. Tracking long-term motor skill learning and its relation to higher cognitive processes such as decision making.
  2. Prediction of motor recovery after stroke
  3. Mechanisms of spontaneous motor recovery after stroke in humans and in mouse models
  4. New neuro-rehabilitation approaches for patients in the first 3 months after stroke.

Locations

  1. The Johns Hopkins Hospital
    • 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287

    Expertise

    Education

    Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

    Fellowship, 1998

    Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

    Fellowship, Neuroscience, 1997

    New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell

    Residency, Neurology, 1996

    Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

    Medical Education, MD, 1992

    Board Certifications

    Neurology

    American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2012

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